Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 01:12:09 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Eelke Blok <e.blok@ieee.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving my home server to completely different hardware Message-ID: <3DCE22E9.40100@owt.com> References: <3DCE20A3.1040505@ieee.org>
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Eelke Blok wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running a home server, which acts as an IP-forwarding machine for my > home network, does some webserving, mail, etc. It's currently based on a > Pentium 120, but I plan to move it to an AMD Athlon.About the only thing > that will remain the same is the hard drive and the two NICs in the > machine. > > What would be my best route? Fresh install? (Eeek, have to install > everything all over again). I think it should be possible to just take > the hard drive and put in in the new machine, boot a generic kernel and > then compile a new kernel for the new hardware, but I'm wondering > whether I'm missing something. > If you use the same class hardware such as cpu, NICs, and audio, you just move them and turn the machine on. If you change cpu classes, you can always upgrade your kernel before you move it. The only time I had problems was when I moved a smp system to a single cpu mother board. It died before I could modify the kernel. A generic boot, change the kernel to non-smp, and the system has run every since. I don't run options in my kernel and etc. I can move a system to Intel and AMD because of this. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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