Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 11:35:31 -0500 (EST) From: Pat Lynch <lynch@rush.net> To: Britton Johnson <johnson@lindenwood.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (SUMMARY) Harddrive transplant Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810271132320.2079-100000@bytor.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.981026132636.24312C-100000@lc.lindenwood.edu>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- yah, I just did this recently, and it had different hardware (ethernet, etc.) and went without a hitch. I bootted off the generic kernel, changed the aliases in /etc/rc.conf and I also recompiled my kernel for the new machine. I went from a 486dx2/66 (HP Vectra) to a p166MMX (Toshiba Equiium) all I did was move both the boot drive (IDE) and the SCSI disk (I was using a AHA15xx? the ISA card, and moved to a 2940AU) recompiled the kernel with the new ethernet and scsi support and everything went without a hitch. - -Pat ___________________________________________________________________________ Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net Systems Administrator Rush Networking ___________________________________________________________________________ On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Britton Johnson wrote: > 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNjX2VcGd9jPuKvqVAQFcdgQAletLjDtM5T8ZajxAjz0QX/Wd8dC5xS6k Yus3D6VOvYQdqGmhz4WiuajDSQNPvx+USWbjBcFlGrbRvYVNivsR/pDrENmSFxat Ey3VVagYAg9Da64W5VBp1xV5H7K/wazJ215LTT3/ml5Wt2RQWMmeOU9+6w1X6twB oB4pqDQXc64= =Vj+t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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