Moving a HD

[Adam Davis]

I don't doubt that it'll mount.

My concern is more that I'll be spending a great deal of time
re-configuring things that got setup automatically at the initial install,
and that it might actually take less time to compress my home directory
(I'm the only user on the machine), copy it to one of the other computers
on the network, and then copy back/uncompress after re-installing with the
new hardware.  Does that sound viable?

I just recall taking a drive with RH7.2 out of one computer and sticking
it in with pretty much the same hardware (aside from a completely
different mobo), and RH's hardware detection (... Anaconda, maybe?)
catching most of the stuff... sort of.  I ended up just removing RH
entirely.  (I could have wiped/re-installed, but then... I wanted to try
Debian ;)

In response to an earlier post, though, I am running the generic FreeBSD
4.5 kernel.... So it'll probably mold itself about to more or less fit
anything new I throw at it, at least enough to start up.  It's all of the
post-start up issues that worry me.

~Adam Davis

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Duane Attaway wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Adam Davis wrote:
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> > Has anyone had any experience with taking a HD with FreeBSD on it and
> > placing it into a different computer?  Thoughts on how well it'll be able
> > to pick up on the different hardware and adjust?
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> Mounting it should not be a problem.
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> They are very easy to mount.  If you want to boot from it, make sure the
> kernel and programs are not compiled for a more exotic processor or
> hardware than what its going into.  Otherwise, you may find it likes to
> reboot or stop earlier than that in the boot process.
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> You can even copy everything over to a new hard drive after it has been
> partitioned.  Be sure to install a bootloader if you want to boot from the
> new drive.  In linux, drives are mounted in the list called /etc/fstab.
> And that's about all the needs to be done when changing drives.  I had to
> do just that this week when my 160GB drive had a head crash.
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