Changing hardware

Martin P. Hansen mph at lima.dyndns.dk
Sun Dec 25 02:49:39 PST 2005


On Sun, 25 Dec 2005, Sasa Stupar wrote:
> I have curently my server on Asus A7N266-VM with Duron 900 and 632 MB RAM, 
> nic 3c905B-TX. I want to migrate to an Compaq with Intel 810 chipset and P3 
> 667. I am thinking to move HDD to compaq, plain and simple. Is it enough to 
> just change configuration for the NIC because in compaq is Intel pro/100vm 
> and the server should function properly or do I need to make new server 
> from the scratch.

Unless you have a very customized KERNELCONF I don't see any problems
with it, since it seems to be i386 architechture on both of the
computers.

I've never tried such migration myself, though.

-- 
Martin P. Hansen


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