From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 10 1:12:15 2002 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 1513937B401 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 01:12:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A21CD43E4A for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 01:12:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA08845; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 01:12:10 -0800 Message-ID: <3DCE22E9.40100@owt.com> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 01:12:09 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eelke Blok Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving my home server to completely different hardware References: <3DCE20A3.1040505@ieee.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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