Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 10:03:33 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: michael dorin <mike@chaski.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can I move a system from... Message-ID: <32A53055.7B37@barcode.co.il> References: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961203113302.4229B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, michael dorin wrote: > > > I have one freebsd based system running on a 486. > > > > Can I take the drives and move it to a new pentium? > > (Then rebuild the kernal) > > > > Will it boot? > > As long as the same devices are present, there should be no problem. That > is to say is that if you had IDE drives in one machine and SCSI in the new > machine you need to be sure that the SCSI controller is in the new kernel. > > Otherwise it should cross over OK. I think that you'd also want to make sure that the kernel wasn't compiled to be 486-only (i.e., that you didn't comment out the i586 line). If it is compiled without Pentium support you may have trouble booting it... > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Nadav
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