Switching FreeBSD machines

[RL]

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.