On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Jon <hyperma...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi > my primary openBSD 4.4 (dell) machine stopped working... Some issue with > mother board or power supply (don't know - don't care) .. however - I have > another machine available > > 2 questions > > 1. can I replace my dell primary openBSD disk on a HP/IBM machines and > expect everything to work fine ? I have basic install only... and added > packages for http (php etc). Meaning swapping of the disks ? will that work > ? I know I can try and see (and I will) but if you know - that will help.
Yes. Just boot off it and go. Make sure you have a monitor and keyboard handy because, as already mentioned, if you have different NICs you will need to rename your hostname.if files. > > 1.1 - if that won't work - will it work if I do an upgrade and install the > same version - to get the right drivers for nic cards, videos etc ? OpenBSD doesn't really have drivers that you can upgrade into. If a driver exists for your hardware it will already be there, if it doesn't exist there's nothing you can do (except for writing the driver yourself and submitting the patches, but I don't think you'd be interested in that). > > > 2. If that won't work - cool. I will re-install OpenBSD on another machine > and I have a kit to make the orig disks as a USB disk - now how do I mount > that... and how can I read that.. I am a BSD fan - but pretty much non-UNIX > person. So I would appriciate the command - to mount the disks on /mnt or > /new_disk and how to read. I have data that I need to recover (websites > content and configurations etc)_ ...? How did you get OpenBSD installed without reading the FAQ and understanding about MBR/fdisk and disklabel? The command is not difficult to figure out, it should just take your plugging of the disk in and a reading of the mount(1) manpage. -Nick
