On Thursday 05 May 2005 14:57, Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: > STeve Andre' wrote: > > 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' > > . > > Steve, > > Actually the two motherboards are 100% identical, bought on the same day > together. As for backup plan, how does "quickly chuck the original disk > back in" sound? > > thanks > Gary
Your backup plan sounds excellent. ;-) You might not belive how many times I've encountered people who hadn't thought of that. I'm serious. Even though the motherboards are the same, there is a part of me that wonders if there might be a subtle difference between using those two CPUs. I've seen too many weird weird problems in the past. I am extremely cautious about this. For critical systems I always reccomend buying two identical motherboards just to be sure that if it dies a good and exact replacement exists.. I even look at revision numbers on asic's to be as sure as possible. I've "been there" just enough times to be paranoiac about this. --STeve Andre'
