On 9/8/06, Timothy A. Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How much hardware leeway is safe to accept when using a source 4 tarball
for an installation?
For example, I have 2 basic models of server one is a gateway pancake
server - p4 3.0 ghz HT, about 512m of memory and 500Gb sata drives
The other is roughly similar but in a standard case the processor and
hdd specs are very close if not identical, but there may be some
differences in the boards as these are not specifically server boards
If the processor is in the same family (i.e. P4) you can get away with
just a few tweaks to your kernel modules (mainly the drivers) and you
should be good to go. The only time I can think that this wouldn't
work is if the processor family is different (ie. P3 -> P4)
-Mike
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