From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 23 6:29:48 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 744FB37B401 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 06:29:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFCD043EA9 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 06:29:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA80308; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:29:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:29:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey To: Robert Covell Cc: Grant Cooper , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Upgrading Computer In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Its what I said already - moving HD and NIC to a new machine is usually all there is to do unless your new cpu etc has all its interrupts spoken for or something. On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Robert Covell wrote: > 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