From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 17 13:09:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1673416A4F6 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 13:09:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1215443FA3 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 13:09:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:12:21 -0600 Message-ID: <3FB938F9.7050102@daleco.biz> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:09:13 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030920 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rlurman@adelphia.net References: <1069101994.4530.12.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1069101994.4530.12.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Nov 2003 21:12:21.0921 (UTC) FILETIME=[7DAFF110:01C3AD4F] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New CPU X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:09:35 -0000 Rafi Lurman wrote: >Hi, I currently have FBSD 4.9 on a Celeron 950MHZ system. I plan to >replace both the motherboard and CPU on it to a 1.2GHZ AMD ATHLON. Will >I run into any problems if I did this? It's the same architecture. Would >I have to compile all my ports again under the new Athlon? > > > I've run FreeBSD 4.x for over two years now, and whenever a box has failed, I've been able to just grab the HDD (assuming, of course, that it was some other part that failed) and stick it in another box with only minimal problems (usually it's refconfigging /etc/rc.conf to deal with a different NIC....) regardless of what other hardware was there. Now, mind you, these are usually boxes that serve http, smtp, dns, etc., and not a complete working desktop with high-bit video, audio, USB, etc. I can't imagine that you'll have much trouble moving, as long as you check the HCL (hardware compatibility list) at freebsd.org first. Of course, that may depend on how many small irksome details constitute "much trouble" .... :D Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.