Thus spake Gary Clemans-Gibbon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [05/05/05 14:20]: : I have a co-located 3.4 web/mail box at a remote location with a P3 : 1.2Ghz and : 1Gb RAM (on-board LAN and video). At home I have another copy of the exact : same motherboard but with a Celeron 1.1Ghz and 512 Gb RAM. : : The question is, can I install 3.7 on the box at home and then simply : take out the HDD : and swap it into the co-lo server? Will it care that it was installed on : a different CPU with less RAM?
I *might* be wrong -- doubt it -- but in theory, you can install the OS onto a given architecture (in your case, x86), take the drive out, and pop it into a box of the same architecture, and it should work just fine. (I just did this with a FreeBSD amd64 machine, next up is to boot into OpenBSD on the same machine. No problems so far.) That is, unless you start doing gcc tweaks specific to that platform (i.e. set -march=p4, and throw the resulting binaries into a P3), or do a kernel compile and strip out devices that would be required on the destination machine. Note that both of those actions are not really recommended.
