From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 23 01:35:50 2004 Return-Path: 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 B6B1616A4CF for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 01:35:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 219FF43D1D for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 01:35:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rlurman@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id r35so38890rna for ; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:35:49 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=O8MDi/eUMMFB+fAp+AmVjAKHIU4FNZUDgeB20IDh/C05zUN/qACtGomISQ7Xx/rHT4VvAfmkQBjzpuT0x5L7+mTdKg70MVEH/4G5+RCDRi+6sfwUBvvPtRgVW/0NvIp5q41ZPagxfZ8XdLe6AmA+xKTJPCLT4g5Y64J/gYJBVt8= Received: by 10.38.90.34 with SMTP id n34mr81621rnb; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:35:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.149.33 with HTTP; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:35:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:35:49 -0500 From: RL To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <41CA2009.5030002@krisk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <41CA2009.5030002@krisk.org> Subject: Re: Switching FreeBSD machines X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: RL List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 01:35:50 -0000 On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:31:53 -0600, Kristian Kielhofner 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.