Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:50:12 -0500 From: RL <rlurman@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switching FreeBSD machines Message-ID: <e6ceb9d404122217505742e1a3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <41CA22D0.4060104@krisk.org> References: <e6ceb9d40412221727423e0eb2@mail.gmail.com> <41CA2009.5030002@krisk.org> <e6ceb9d404122217354bc3aed@mail.gmail.com> <41CA22D0.4060104@krisk.org>
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On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:43:44 -0600, Kristian Kielhofner <kris@krisk.org> wrote: > RL wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:31:53 -0600, Kristian Kielhofner <kris@krisk.org> wrote: > > > >>RL wrote: > >> > >>>Hi. I have FBSD 5.3 on one machine. I'm thinking of buying a Dell > >>>420SC Server and would want to use FreeBSD on that. I went through a > >>>hard time getting things to work on my current machine such as Java > >>>and maybe a few other things, so I really would rather not start from > >>>scratch. And I don't want to swap hard-drives because the Dell comes > >>>with a nice Serial ATA drive I want to use. My only option might be to > >>>clone the old FBSD box using g4Unix and putting it on the Dell. Would > >>>kind of problems and headaches would I have with that? > >>> > >>>Edit: Current machine is an Athlon and Dell server is a P4. > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >>>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >>>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >> > >>I hope you saw that the SC420 is going for under $250 right now! > >>Anyways, you could always try to manually partition the new drive (in > >>the 420) install the bootloader, and then rsync everything over. I have > >>done that many times with FreeBSD and Linux, and as long as you have a > >>kernel that supports the HD controllers on both, you should be fine. A > >>FreeBSD live cd should help, but you don't necessarily need it. > >> > >>-- > >>Kristian Kielhofner > >> > > > > > > Yeah that is about what I got it for (actually over $300.) Now would > > ghosting it (with g4u) work? I'm thinking I might have a lot of > > issues because stuff was compiled for an Athlon and I'm moving to a > > P4. > > Hmm... What did you get in it? Anyways, you could use g4u, but I really > think that the rsync method will be faster and more reliable anyways. > If your binaries have been compiled for Athlon then you could have some > problems on a P4. That is why I compile everything for 686 - I know > that it is going to work no matter what recent processor I put it on, > and I am not much of a believer in "optimizing". > > You could rebuild the system and them portupgrade -aRr (after you > modify /etc/make.conf, of course). > > -- > Kristian Kielhofner > > It is a P4 2.8GHZ, 256MB RAM, 80GB Serial ATA hard-drive. I might just start from scratch. I just got a bad feeling I will run into problems. The biggest pain in the ass was getting Java to work on my old system. Besides that, I don't have any critical on my old system that I wouldn't mind starting from scratch again.
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