Switching FreeBSD machines

[RL]

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:43:44 -0600, Kristian Kielhofner <kris at krisk.org> wrote:
> RL wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:31:53 -0600, Kristian Kielhofner <kris at krisk.org> wrote:
> >
> >>RL wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi. I have FBSD 5.3 on one machine. I'm thinking of buying a Dell
> >>>420SC Server and would want to use FreeBSD on that. I went through a
> >>>hard time getting things to work on my current machine such as Java
> >>>and maybe a few other things, so I really would rather not start from
> >>>scratch. And I don't want to swap hard-drives because the Dell comes
> >>>with a nice Serial ATA drive I want to use. My only option might be to
> >>>clone the old FBSD box using g4Unix and putting it on the Dell. Would
> >>>kind of problems and headaches would I have with that?
> >>>
> >>>Edit: Current machine is an Athlon and Dell server is a P4.
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> >>I hope you saw that the SC420 is going for under $250 right now!
> >>Anyways, you could always try to manually partition the new drive (in
> >>the 420) install the bootloader, and then rsync everything over.  I have
> >>done that many times with FreeBSD and Linux, and as long as you have a
> >>kernel that supports the HD controllers on both, you should be fine.  A
> >>FreeBSD live cd should help, but you don't necessarily need it.
> >>
> >>--
> >>Kristian Kielhofner
> >>
> >
> >
> > Yeah that is about what I got it for (actually over $300.)  Now would
> > ghosting it (with g4u) work?  I'm thinking I might have a lot of
> > issues because stuff was compiled for an Athlon and I'm moving to a
> > P4.
> 
> Hmm... What did you get in it?  Anyways, you could use g4u, but I really
> think that the rsync method will be faster and more reliable anyways.
> If your binaries have been compiled for Athlon then you could have some
> problems on a P4.  That is why I compile everything for 686 - I know
> that it is going to work no matter what recent processor I put it on,
> and I am not much of a believer in "optimizing".
> 
>         You could rebuild the system and them portupgrade -aRr (after you
> modify /etc/make.conf, of course).
> 
> --
> Kristian Kielhofner
> 
> 

It is a P4 2.8GHZ, 256MB RAM, 80GB Serial ATA hard-drive.  I might
just start from scratch.  I just got a bad feeling I will run into
problems. The biggest pain in the ass was getting Java to work on my
old system.  Besides that, I don't have any critical on my old system
that I wouldn't mind starting from scratch again.