From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 26 08:51:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA28229 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 08:51:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from elvis.vnet.net (elvis.vnet.net [166.82.1.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA28222 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 08:51:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by elvis.vnet.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA17264; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:51:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA15776; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:29:55 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) id LAA08851; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:50:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:50:49 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199810261650.LAA08851@lakes.dignus.com> To: johnson@lindenwood.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Harddrive transplant In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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