Re: swapping hardware
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: swapping hardware
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]
Re: swapping hardware
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 in FreeBSD kernel drives the hardware. if anything has to be changed - it will be kernel config. and possibly network device names in /etc/* ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: swapping hardware
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: 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 No X -- No problem on video. The text console works on any graphics hardware. Since the network card will be different, you will have to redo the network settings. If you know the brand / type of the netcard in the new machine, have a look at the hardware list of 6.2 to see if it is supported. Have a look at your old network settings in /etc/rc.conf The following lines are of interest: ifconfig_drivername=inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx hostname=yourhost.yourdomain.something defaultrouter=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Hostname and defaultrouter will not change, what you will have to change is the drivername to match the new network card. You can redo the whole configuration from sysinstall (Configure - Networking - Interfaces) or simply find out the name of the network card from there and change it yourself. You will need to connect a keyboard and screen into the system, as your not - most probably - going to have networking at first boot. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
