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

Mikhail Goriachev mikhailg at webanoide.org
Wed May 24 17:29:40 PDT 2006


Garrett Cooper wrote:
> 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


I guess it would depend on the AMD processor. If it's 32bits then it
falls into i386 category, same as the Celerons. If it is 64bits then it
*might* still work in 32bits mode (backward compatibility). In the
latter case I'd get and AMD64 copy of FreeBSD.

Cheers,
Mikhail.


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