From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 22:11:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 84E4737B402 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 22:11:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 88023 invoked by uid 100); 16 Mar 2002 06:11:07 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15506.57850.425345.840853@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 00:11:06 -0600 To: Chip Wiegand Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What are the implications of moving my hard drive to a differant pc? In-Reply-To: <20020315215424.61903c4f.chip@wiegand.org> References: <20020315215424.61903c4f.chip@wiegand.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.49 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) 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 In <20020315215424.61903c4f.chip@wiegand.org>, Chip Wiegand typed: > I was given a computer, PII/350 with no drives. I am considering moving > my hard drive from this compter I am currently using, AMD K6-2/350, into > the PII. Will there be any problems doing this? I know in windoze this > is generally no big deal, but am not sure about doing this in FreeBSD > (4.5). I've done this a number of times, in a number of different ways. There are only two things to worry about. 1) Make sure you have a GENERIC kernel handy. 2) If you've got a NIC, it'll change names, and that will have to be fixed in /etc/rc.conf. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message