On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 12:10:24PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > Assumption 1 : Penderel is a sick puppy, it has something wrong with > the mobo or memory or whatever.
If it's not software then I'm pretty sure it's the motherboard/CPU. The memory is branded and consistent. > If the above assumptions are true, I propose we strip Penderel of its > scsi drive (9gb) and flog Penderel on ebay to some lucky punter. We There are more filesystems than you might think, $ df -H Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 3.7G 1.8G 1.7G 51% / /dev/sda1 7.9M 6.7M 877k 89% /boot /dev/sda7 510M 26M 457M 6% /oldhome /dev/hda1 39G 5.7G 31G 16% /home $ Quite honestly, I think you could be underestimating the hassle involved with a reinstall and copy-over onto a different architecture. I dunno, maybe you have done this a lot and know it back-to-front. I do i386 copies a lot and even with the same architecture it's not pleasant. Just IME, YEMV. My suggestion -- if you really want to use a "new" machine -- would be to build a complete new machine, have both online simultaneously and transition services piecemeal. To be honest, for the cost of little more than a SCSI housing you could buy an AMD+mobo (that would run rings around any sparc machine you could get hold of, FWIW). Anyway, do as you will... Paul (who definitely would like to see a more maintainable OS running there *psst* debian *psst* :-) -- Paul Makepeace ....................................... http://paulm.com/ "What is a trouble avoided? Strawberry pie without the filipinos." -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/
