Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:40:23 -0600 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: RL <rlurman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switching FreeBSD machines Message-ID: <20041223024023.GA72035@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <e6ceb9d40412221727423e0eb2@mail.gmail.com> References: <e6ceb9d40412221727423e0eb2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:27:18PM -0500, 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? > If you're tracking 5-STABLE, I would bring your current machine up-to-date with STABLE and portupgrade all ports. Then, create packages out of all your ports (man pkg_create, pay attention to -b switch). Create .tar files of your home directory, /etc/mail, /etc/namedb, and anything else you care about that's taken some time to configure. One thing I do on all my boxes is use RCS for all config files. It's a simple and quick step to create a .tar out of all these directories scattered about a box. I back these files up regularly. If I need to rebuild a box, it's a simple OS install, whatever ports are needed, and retrieve my config files from a tar. On your new box, bring it up-to-date with -STABLE, and install packages you created above. Selectively un-tar above files as needed. -- Regards, Doug
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