Re: [SLE] Move to another hardware platform.

From: Rikard Johnels (rikjoh_at_norweb.se)
Date: 09/03/04

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Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 16:18:33 +0200

    On Friday 03 September 2004 16.05, Steve Kratz wrote:
    > > Why not? The only limitation would be the kernel if it was custom
    > > complied for a specific cpu.
    >
    > Not to try to hijack this thread, but what would happen if the drives ended
    > up changing? Would that just be a matter of fixing the mountpoints in fstab
    > and the grub/lilo configs? Or, is there more?

    Not much more.. Maybe a few .conf files if they point by partitions rather
    than path..
    I have done a few "transfers" but not too much problems have reared..
    Might take a few fiddles to get all down pat, but not too much...

    Fastest and easiest is of course to get the disk back as the same unit it was.
    That way you don't have to change anything. 

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         /Rikard
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