Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:35:49 -0500 From: RL <rlurman@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switching FreeBSD machines Message-ID: <e6ceb9d404122217354bc3aed@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <41CA2009.5030002@krisk.org> References: <e6ceb9d40412221727423e0eb2@mail.gmail.com> <41CA2009.5030002@krisk.org>
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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.
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