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Doug White wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, michael dorin wrote:
> 
> > I have one freebsd based system running on a 486.
> >
> > Can I take the drives and move it to a new pentium?
> > (Then rebuild the kernal)
> >
> > Will it boot?
> 
> As long as the same devices are present, there should be no problem.  That
> is to say is that if you had IDE drives in one machine and SCSI in the new
> machine you need to be sure that the SCSI controller is in the new kernel.
> 
> Otherwise it should cross over OK.

I think that you'd also want to make sure that the kernel wasn't compiled to
be 486-only (i.e., that you didn't comment out the i586 line). If it is
compiled without Pentium support you may have trouble booting it...

> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
Nadav