From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 23 9:59:53 2003 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 02C8037B401 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 09:59:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-122.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D420943F93 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 09:59:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2NHxmJP003130; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 12:59:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E7DF5B5.3020104@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 12:58:13 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joseph Maxwell Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving Disks to new PC Machines References: <3E7DDCAF.C411A6BA@jaymax.com> In-Reply-To: <3E7DDCAF.C411A6BA@jaymax.com> 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 Joseph Maxwell wrote: > Hello, > I need to move my system ( actually 2 hard disk) to another machine w/ > different MotherBoard and CPU. The disks have been configured as a > bootablesyetm disk and the other data storage. How can I reconfigure to > achieve this with the minimum amount of perturbation. While the disks are in the old machine, verify that your current kernel has compiled-in support for all the devices needed on the new machine. If necessary, make a new kernel. Then move the disks to the new machine and you're ready to go. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message