Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:29:17 -0400 From: Ultima <ultima1252@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is it necessary to reinstall OS upon motherboard change? Message-ID: <CANJ8om4_QS7jZxGhvCo7KSVK-Son0CJorppVGeOUfzZnj_xUwQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20160830211757.7de1896d.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <VI1PR02MB0974ABE8A5C1472F61965571F6E00@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <20160830211757.7de1896d.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 19:10:55 +0000, Manish Jain wrote: > > Because of certain problems I am experiencing with my hardware, I am > > planning to move to another motherboard + CPU. Just out of curiosity, I > > wished to enquire - is it possible to use an existing FreeBSD > > installation despite change of MB + CPU ? > > Yes. A re-install is recommended (but not exactly _required_) when > moving from a 32 bit platform to a 64 bit platform on x86. A total > re-install is only needed when changing achitectures (for example > if you move from i386 to sparc). > > > > > In the Windows world, that is > > pretty much impossible, but on FreeBSD the possibilities don't appear > > that bad to me. > > In "Windows" land you also have to consider if you are _allowed_ > to re-install on different hardware... ;-) > > > > > (My hard disk and graphics card will remain unaltered). > > If you are on amd64, and the new CPU is amd64 as well, no need > to reinstall. In fact, I have a special FreeBSD HDD which I have > already booted on more than 10 totally different systems. :-) > > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >help
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