On 07/25/18 15:38, Jay Hart wrote: > Hello al, > > Just bought a new server and wanted to see what the practicality would be of > moving my disk from > one box to the other. Its a stock 6.3 install, fully patched, with a few > packages. The old > processor is a VIA based CPU running generic i386 kernel. The new box is > based on an Intel Celeron > J1900 64-bit CPU. > > My thought is it should move over and boot up on the stock generic i386 > kernel, at which time I > could update to 64-bit or just wait until 6.4 comes out and then update. > > Curious if you think this will work, or should I just do a clean install.
Yes. No. Yes, you should be able to move the disk from one machine to the other (with suitable adapters), and after adjusting your network adapters, you should just take off and run. No. Do not try to "update" to 64 bit. Reload from scratch. OpenBSD treats i386 and amd64 as two DIFFERENT platforms. Would you take a SPARC64 or MacPPC disk and put it on a PC and just "update" to the new platform? NO! You would reinstall. And that's what you should do here. At which point...what are you trying to gain by moving a disk from the old system to the new one? Just put a new disk on the new system, load the platform of choice, and copy your key config files from the old one to the new one, and that way, your old system still exists. Nick.
