On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:27:18PM -0500, 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? > If you're tracking 5-STABLE, I would bring your current machine up-to-date with STABLE and portupgrade all ports. Then, create packages out of all your ports (man pkg_create, pay attention to -b switch). Create .tar files of your home directory, /etc/mail, /etc/namedb, and anything else you care about that's taken some time to configure.
One thing I do on all my boxes is use RCS for all config files. It's a simple and quick step to create a .tar out of all these directories scattered about a box. I back these files up regularly. If I need to rebuild a box, it's a simple OS install, whatever ports are needed, and retrieve my config files from a tar. On your new box, bring it up-to-date with -STABLE, and install packages you created above. Selectively un-tar above files as needed. -- Regards, Doug _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
