On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 11:15:35AM -0700, Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: > I have a co-located 3.4 web/mail box at a remote location with a P3 > 1.2Ghz and > 1Gb RAM (on-board LAN and video). At home I have another copy of the exact > same motherboard but with a Celeron 1.1Ghz and 512 Gb RAM. > > The question is, can I install 3.7 on the box at home and then simply > take out the HDD > and swap it into the co-lo server? Will it care that it was installed on > a different CPU with less > RAM?
Thanks to GENERIC kernel, this kind of thing will often work even on a completely different motherboard/cpu. When I upgraded from an old Athlon XP to a new Athlon 64 my OpenBSD install didn't mind a bit. So, you really shouldn't have any issues. This just shows the advantages of GENERIC approach vs. loadable modules.
