From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 26 11:29:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA11957 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:29:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper.lindenwood.edu (gatekeeper.lindenwood.edu [199.217.137.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA11945 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:29:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from johnson@lindenwood.edu) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by gatekeeper.lindenwood.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA03888 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 13:29:05 -0600 (CST) Received: from lc.lindenwood.edu(172.16.1.3) by gatekeeper.lindenwood.edu via smap (V1.3) id sma003886; Mon Oct 26 13:28:56 1998 Received: from localhost by lc.lindenwood.edu (5.65v4.0/1.1.19.2/03Jun98-1203PM) id AA24417; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 13:28:56 -0600 Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 13:28:56 -0600 (CST) From: Britton Johnson To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: (SUMMARY) Harddrive transplant Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks to all who took time to respond so quickly. The over-all consensus was that yes it should work without a hitch, assuming they are both more or less generic systems and I am using a more or less GENERIC kernel. One person said they had a couple IRQ differences, but they were ironed out quickly and easily. Original question follows: --- original question --- 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...) - Britton Johnson, System Admin. Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO - Disclaimer: Any typos, grammatical errors, and/or lapses of intelligence are purely intentional. Don't try this at home. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message