On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:31:53 -0600, Kristian Kielhofner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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.
Hmm... What did you get in it? Anyways, you could use g4u, but I really think that the rsync method will be faster and more reliable anyways. If your binaries have been compiled for Athlon then you could have some problems on a P4. That is why I compile everything for 686 - I know that it is going to work no matter what recent processor I put it on, and I am not much of a believer in "optimizing".
You could rebuild the system and them portupgrade -aRr (after you modify /etc/make.conf, of course).
-- Kristian Kielhofner
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