Can drive with 6.1 be directly transferred from one machine to another?

[Garrett Cooper]

Garrett Cooper wrote:
>    Ok, so the back story is that something hardware-related in my 
> older machine fileserver died, all the info's on a series of SCSI 
> disks, and my other desktop doesn't support SCSI, nor does it have the 
> space for the drives/card (yay for dell), thus I need to either buy 
> replacement parts or buy a new machine (I'm weighing the pros and cons 
> right now).
>    So I was wondering if my disk with all of the compiled binaries for 
> my 1.2 GHz could simply be moved from one machine to another and just 
> work without having to reinstall or recompile FreeBSD or not. I would 
> think that I could just move the drive to another machine and boot 
> from it, given the fact that Intel loves making their instruction sets 
> backwards compatible, but I just need to make sure since I don't want 
> to invest in something more expensive and discover I have to start 
> from square one.
>    Overall, time is of more value to me right now than anything else.
>    Thanks,
> -Garrett
Another valid question I suppose is whether or not I can move the 
machine from a box with a Celeron CPU to one with an AMD CPU (not sure 
if vendors matter even though ISAs are the same).
-Garrett