From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 23 6: 9:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4414237B401 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 06:09:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail1.rolet.com (mail1.rolet.com [208.29.194.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BEDD43EA9 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 06:09:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rcovell@rolet.com) Received: from dev4 (dev4.rolet.com [208.29.194.9]) (authenticated) by mail1.rolet.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g9NDEML74781; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 08:14:23 -0500 (CDT) Reply-To: From: "Robert Covell" To: "Stephen Hovey" , "Grant Cooper" Cc: Subject: RE: Upgrading Computer Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 08:15:16 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What about going to a new cpu and motherboard with the same nic and hd? I am in the same situation except that I want to move to different hardware. I have a FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE (GENERIC) mail server that might need some more power. -Bob -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Stephen Hovey Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 7:39 AM To: Grant Cooper Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading Computer Yeah you should be able to just swap guts. On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Grant Cooper wrote: > I just aquired a pent 300 and was currently using a pent 200. But I used a > GENERIC kernel that came with the FreeBSD because I never new how to modify > it at the time. Because I never changed the Kernel can't I just switch the > hardrives and network cards? From reading the boot up process I don't think > there should be any problems. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message