Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 14:17:58 -0500 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "Britton Johnson" <johnson@lindenwood.edu>, "Graeme Tait" <graeme@echidna.com> Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Harddrive transplant Message-ID: <199810261919.OAA26149@laker.net>
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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...) If you're booting the GENERIC kernel, you'll fare pretty well, I think. If you've been building custom kernels, be sure the various CPU flavors cover the new machine. I usually comment out the 386 and 486, but leave in not only the appropriate one for the CPU I actually have, but also all newer CPU types. > On Mon, 26 Oct 1998 13:45:15 -0800, Graeme Tait wrote: > >It worked in the end, but not before I'd stuck a few more pins in >my Bill Gates voodoo doll. Can I borrow the doll ?? >P.s.: What did Bill Gates' wife say to him on their honeymoon? I want a divorce and half your assets?? or Turn off the laptop... or If I swallow, will I still be cherry?? (Chelsea has become MUCH more popular, now that everyone knows her dad's definition of sex as could be applied to "losing virginity"... Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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