Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:50:49 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: johnson@lindenwood.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Harddrive transplant Message-ID: <199810261650.LAA08851@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.981026104321.13121B-100000@lc.lindenwood.edu>
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> > I was curious if FreeBSD would complain if I transplanted a fully set up > harddrive to a newer faster pentium box. I would be using the same NIC's > and no extra peripherals. Everything that I can think of like the > harddrive controllers and Serial ports,etc.. use rather standard IRQ's etc > so I was wondering if anyone has had any success in an "operation" like > this or knew any reason that I am overlooking that it will not work. > (i.e. Win95 seems to be able to find lots of things to complain about if > you do this sort of thing, but FreeBSD "appears" to me to be more generic > and perhaps forgiving...) > > Any advice is welcome. > > Britt > > > - Britton Johnson, System Admin. Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO - > I've done it many times with no problems... - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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