On 8/8/05, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 8/8/05, Dovber Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a few RedHat servers that I want to clone to new machines.
>
> Are they identical machines? Does each have the same exact hardware?
> The installed OS assumes certain hardware, and if you transplant it to
> a new machine with different hardware, it may go schizo. I'm not sure
> how well udev/kudzu would handle this.
I think you will find that Linux is much more tolerant of hardware
differences than some other unmentionable x86-biased OS's. I have
transplanted a disk from Pentium II to AMD K6-3 with no trouble,
vintage RedHat 7.2. Also more recently from the same K6-3 to Athlon
with no trouble, vintage Fedora 3. Have not tried K6-3 to Pentium 4.
Much of the hardware discovery process is done at boot time, rather
than being built in when the software is first installed.
carl
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