swapping out mb and cpu

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

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
>>
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