Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > I'm currently running FreeBSD 6.2 on a PIII 550 with 384 of ram and 10 gig > drive- > > I got my hands a "new" box it's a PIV 1.8 with 1 gig of ram- > > I was wondering if it were possible to take the hard drive out from the older > machine ( it's a dell dimension) and put it in the new tower- dell optiplex > > I know with older windows OS's 9x it would work fine just maybe have to > update some drivers, where as with NT 2k XP etc.. it would not. > > Will this work in the BSD world? Or am I asking for more trouble than its > worth? > > > > > > TIA > > J > >
Unless you've done something really *weird* with the kernel, it should work just fine. The Windows (2K/NT/XP) problem of booting in new hardware is caused by not having the specific IDE / ATA drivers installed. The FreeBSD ATA driver is in the kernel and can handle a long list of different PATA/SATA controllers. One thing that may change (and may cause you some trouble) is the device name (eg from ad0 to ad2), depending on the controller / channel you connect the new disk but this can easily be fixed in /etc/fstab You will of course have to reconfigure other changed devices, like sound cards, X -if the video card is different -, and network. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Believe me , I wish I knew how to do something weird with the kernel- I'm still wet behind the ears in BSD land. This machine , believe it or not , I use a mail filter server- BSD/CLAM/SA and EXIM- and I only putty into it- no X no video nada- but it should* recognize and install the drivers for the video and nic? that is my main concern _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
