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Date:      Sat, 16 Mar 2002 00:11:06 -0600
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1016691067.d08e69@mired.org>
To:        Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: What are the implications of moving my hard drive to a differant pc?
Message-ID:  <15506.57850.425345.840853@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020315215424.61903c4f.chip@wiegand.org>
References:  <20020315215424.61903c4f.chip@wiegand.org>

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In <20020315215424.61903c4f.chip@wiegand.org>, Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org> typed:
> I was given a computer, PII/350 with no drives. I am considering moving
> my hard drive from this compter I am currently using, AMD K6-2/350, into
> the PII. Will there be any problems doing this? I know in windoze this
> is generally no big deal, but am not sure about doing this in FreeBSD
> (4.5).

I've done this a number of times, in a number of different ways. There
are only two things to worry about. 1) Make sure you have a GENERIC
kernel handy. 2) If you've got a NIC, it'll change names, and that
will have to be fixed in /etc/rc.conf.


	<mike
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