Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 11:34:11 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: michael dorin <mike@chaski.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can I move a system from... Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961203113302.4229B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199612031836.MAA25834@chaski.com>
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On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, michael dorin wrote: > I have one freebsd based system running on a 486. > > Can I take the drives and move it to a new pentium? > (Then rebuild the kernal) > > Will it boot? As long as the same devices are present, there should be no problem. That is to say is that if you had IDE drives in one machine and SCSI in the new machine you need to be sure that the SCSI controller is in the new kernel. Otherwise it should cross over OK. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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