Re: Question about moving system to different hardware

2010-07-14 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:51:34 -0400 Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: 2. I note that in the example for backing up and restoring that raw devices are used. In my situation, I will be going from ide to a usb drive, and then from the usb drive to scsi disks. So, the ide

Re: Question about moving system to different hardware

2010-07-13 Thread Martin Pelikán
2010/7/13, Ted Wynnychenko ted@comcast.net: the network card will be the same, since it's moving too Actually, it doesn't have to; its number might change due to different motherboard layout (happened to me on one crappy ECS). Then you end up playing with config(8). -- Martin Pelikan

Question about moving system to different hardware

2010-07-12 Thread Ted Wynnychenko
Hello: I was very happy with myself after setting up a file server for my home with some old hardware (and some new old hardware). Everything works great. Now, I have come into possession of some better old hardware (an actual server - Compaq Evo W8000 - with SCSI disks! Wow, that's big for

Re: Question about moving system to different hardware

2010-07-12 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/12/10 19:00, Ted Wynnychenko wrote: Hello: I was very happy with myself after setting up a file server for my home with some old hardware (and some new old hardware). Everything works great. Now, I have come into possession of some better old hardware (an actual server - Compaq Evo