Changing systems

[Fred Smith]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 07:00:03PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:57:18AM -0600, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > Hi all and Happy Thanksgiving,
> > 
> > Could I take 2 HD's out of 1 computer, move them to a different
> > computer, obviously having to reinstall grub and such, would they work
> > without having to do much of anything else?  
> > 
> > I know I have to make sure the correct one is booted up and how they
> > are connected, and the BIOS sees them correctly.
> > 
> > Anything else to know first?  The computers are both pretty new so not
> > like going from 10 year old to a 1 year old or anything, both only 3-5
> > years old even if that old.
> 
> that's how I "built" the system I have now. Had a pair of drives
> in software RAID-1. pulled 'em out of the old system, plugged 'em
> into the new system and voila (nearly) everything worked. One bottleneck
> was the network wasn't working until I fixed the hard-coded MAC addresses
> in the NIC configuration. can't think of anything else, right now, that
> didn't work.

following up on my won post: I gotta admit that was Centos 6, not
Fedora.


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