Re: Moving a Debian install in to new hardware?
On 1/3/06, Jimmy Liang <jimmy@skynetusa.com> wrote:
>
> 2. If I simply take the drive and put it in the new box, can anyone think
> of any problems? missing drivers and such? I don't know enough about the
> Debian installer or the Linux kernel to know if they treat the P4 and Xeon
> chips differently.
>
Between AMD and Intel CPU's I'd apt-get install the approrpriate
kernel first. Xeon and P4 probably use the same kernel, so you can
get the smp kernel when you boot your xeon system.
> 3. If and when I do need to exchange it for the larger drive, how would I
> go about doing that without any reinstalls?
>
LVM. If you're not using LVM, you may have to reinstall.
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