On Thursday 05 May 2005 14:15, Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: > Hi All, > > 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? > > TIA.
Um, if one motherboard is a p3 and the other is a celeron, they aren't the same. Close maybe, but not the same. Remember that when at some point in the future two "similar" motherboards do slightly different things to you. Anyway, unless there are odd disk geometry problems, you ought to be able to move the disk over to the new box. Keep in mind that if the network card differs you'll have to change /etc/hostname.?. You should be able to do this easily. Have a backup plan in case it doesn't go well. --STeve Andre'
