Swap File / Swapping computers?

[Mikeal Clark]

Jay Banks wrote:

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>>Normally, Mailman will remind you of your freebsd.org mailing list
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>There is a MasterCard joke in that somewhere, because accidentally posting a
>password to a public list: priceless. Changed that one pretty quick, and
>luckily, use it almost nowhere else. :)
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>>>cc: Internal error: Killed (program cc1)
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>Thanks for the ideas on TFTP, guys. Although some went over my head, I do
>think I figured out my internal error problem. I was making the ports from
>my house using SSH and that is the error I was getting. What was really
>happening at the time is my swap file ran out of memory. The drive is 12
>gig, with 9 gig free. I wish the swap file had been made bigger on
>install...
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>On a different note, a coworker let me borrow a computer to install/learn
>FreeBSD on. At some point he will want it back. How does FreeBSD work at
>say, backing up and restoring, cloning the hard drive, or pulling the drive
>out and putting it into a different system? I was thinking about just
>installing from scratch on one of my own computers, but it is getting to the
>point where I have a ton of time tied up in this and maybe I don't want to
>start over.
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If you are using a generic kernel you can just pull the drive and place 
it in another computer and boot up as long as the hardware is supported
and the drive is placed in the same controller/master/slave relation.  
If that changes I believe you have to edit fstab.