Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:43:44 -0600 From: Kristian Kielhofner <kris@krisk.org> To: RL <rlurman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switching FreeBSD machines Message-ID: <41CA22D0.4060104@krisk.org> In-Reply-To: <e6ceb9d404122217354bc3aed@mail.gmail.com> References: <e6ceb9d40412221727423e0eb2@mail.gmail.com> <41CA2009.5030002@krisk.org> <e6ceb9d404122217354bc3aed@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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