On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 11:15:35AM -0700, Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote:
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?
Thanks to GENERIC kernel, this kind of thing will often work even on a completely different motherboard/cpu.
When I upgraded from an old Athlon XP to a new Athlon 64 my OpenBSD install didn't mind a bit.
So, you really shouldn't have any issues. This just shows the advantages of GENERIC approach vs. loadable modules.
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The only thing is that I run 2 HDDs in RAID1 mirror with RAIDFRAME and so my kernel is generic + pseudo-device raid (if I remember correctly - it was a while ago I last did this and I've lost my notes).
Sorry I didn't mention that at first but I wasn't thinking about the kernel change.
Will that make a difference do you think? Sorry to be such a newb!
Thanks again for all the replies. Much appreciated.
