Re: swapping out mb and cpu
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Apr 8, 2006, at 9:51 PM, John Cruz wrote: As far as I know, as long as your drive configuration is the the same (/root on ide0 disk 1 would be ide0 disk 1 on the new machine as well) then it should work without a hitch. I'll be upgrading my machine in the near future as well, so any insight on this is much apprecaited. Should be ok (both above and below) as long as you move all the SCSI cards or map your ide/sata drives the same. I have done this before without issue I'm no expert, but I would think its worth mentioning that a GENERIC kernel, or one relatively uncustomized would be necessary. If you have removed options/devices from your kernel config file that a necessary for the new mb/cpu... then you might hit a bump. Chad -John je killen wrote: Hello; I have a machine running with FreeBSD 6.0 running on AMD64 socket 754 and Elite Group motherboard. It has been up and running without problem continuously for about 5 weeks now (although I am the only one connecting to it at present). I have purchased a new mother board and cpu. The new mb is Gigabyte GA-K8N-SLI and the new cpu is Athlon 64 socket 939. It has extended PCI slots and I am planning on swapping the FreeBSD installation to the new motherboard and processor. If I just move the hard drives and SCSI adapter to the new machine will it run on the different motherboard and processor? Or do I have to install FreeBSD specifically on the new machine? The reason I'm considering this is because the AMD64 754 machine has a SCSI adapter made for an extended PCI slot. The mb has only standard PCI slots so the adapter isn't being used optimally. So I would be swapping the main drive (ata) and two SCSI drives (assigned usr and var partitions, respectively), as well as the adapter. Is this possible? Thanks in advance; JK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Regards, Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: swapping out mb and cpu
On Apr 8, 2006, at 9:51 PM, John Cruz wrote: As far as I know, as long as your drive configuration is the the same (/root on ide0 disk 1 would be ide0 disk 1 on the new machine as well) then it should work without a hitch. I'll be upgrading my machine in the near future as well, so any insight on this is much apprecaited. Should be ok (both above and below) as long as you move all the SCSI cards or map your ide/sata drives the same. I have done this before without issue Chad -John je killen wrote: Hello; I have a machine running with FreeBSD 6.0 running on AMD64 socket 754 and Elite Group motherboard. It has been up and running without problem continuously for about 5 weeks now (although I am the only one connecting to it at present). I have purchased a new mother board and cpu. The new mb is Gigabyte GA-K8N-SLI and the new cpu is Athlon 64 socket 939. It has extended PCI slots and I am planning on swapping the FreeBSD installation to the new motherboard and processor. If I just move the hard drives and SCSI adapter to the new machine will it run on the different motherboard and processor? Or do I have to install FreeBSD specifically on the new machine? The reason I'm considering this is because the AMD64 754 machine has a SCSI adapter made for an extended PCI slot. The mb has only standard PCI slots so the adapter isn't being used optimally. So I would be swapping the main drive (ata) and two SCSI drives (assigned usr and var partitions, respectively), as well as the adapter. Is this possible? Thanks in advance; JK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED]" --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: swapping out mb and cpu
As far as I know, as long as your drive configuration is the the same (/root on ide0 disk 1 would be ide0 disk 1 on the new machine as well) then it should work without a hitch. I'll be upgrading my machine in the near future as well, so any insight on this is much apprecaited. -John je killen wrote: Hello; I have a machine running with FreeBSD 6.0 running on AMD64 socket 754 and Elite Group motherboard. It has been up and running without problem continuously for about 5 weeks now (although I am the only one connecting to it at present). I have purchased a new mother board and cpu. The new mb is Gigabyte GA-K8N-SLI and the new cpu is Athlon 64 socket 939. It has extended PCI slots and I am planning on swapping the FreeBSD installation to the new motherboard and processor. If I just move the hard drives and SCSI adapter to the new machine will it run on the different motherboard and processor? Or do I have to install FreeBSD specifically on the new machine? The reason I'm considering this is because the AMD64 754 machine has a SCSI adapter made for an extended PCI slot. The mb has only standard PCI slots so the adapter isn't being used optimally. So I would be swapping the main drive (ata) and two SCSI drives (assigned usr and var partitions, respectively), as well as the adapter. Is this possible? Thanks in advance; JK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
