Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 13:45:15 -0800 From: Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com> To: Britton Johnson <johnson@lindenwood.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Harddrive transplant Message-ID: <3634ED6B.3A38@echidna.com> References: <Pine.OSF.3.96.981026104321.13121B-100000@lc.lindenwood.edu>
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Britton Johnson wrote: > > I was curious if FreeBSD would complain if I transplanted a fully set up > harddrive to a newer faster pentium box. I would be using the same NIC's > and no extra peripherals. Everything that I can think of like the > harddrive controllers and Serial ports,etc.. use rather standard IRQ's etc > so I was wondering if anyone has had any success in an "operation" like > this or knew any reason that I am overlooking that it will not work. > (i.e. Win95 seems to be able to find lots of things to complain about if > you do this sort of thing, but FreeBSD "appears" to me to be more generic > and perhaps forgiving...) I'm certainly no authority, being a newbie to UNIX and FreeBSD, but I was pleasantly surprised when I did this, transferring a removable IDE hard drive (in a Dataport module) from one system to another. This was with the generic 2.2.6 kernel. In my case, some interrupts, etc. had to be reconfigured at the boot, but that was easy, and otherwise it just worked. This did not include reconfiguring X11 and PPP, which would have been necessary due to differing equipment on the two systems. I've moved a hard drive bearing Win95 in similar fashion between these two systems. Well, similar except for an awful lot of mucking around, like loading new drivers, repeated reboots, and a crash that took out the registry. It worked in the end, but not before I'd stuck a few more pins in my Bill Gates voodoo doll. -- Graeme Tait - Echidna P.s.: What did Bill Gates' wife say to him on their honeymoon? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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