Topic: Moving E-smith HD from one box to another

[Paul Cutler]

I am thinking of upgrading my server box to a faster processor, and moving the HD from the P2-266 it's in now to a P3-450 so I can host a Jedi Knight 2 server on my e-smith server.

From the FAQ it says:

You should only do this if the machines are identically configured. Many hardware items, most importantly the processor type, are detected at installation time. The installer will choose processor-dependent versions of various important packages, including the kernel. These processor-dependent packages may not run on other processors. If you move the disk to a less capable machine (e.g. from a PIII to a Pentium), the machine is likely to hang just after printing 'freeing cpu memory'. If you move the disk to a more capable machine (e.g. from a Pentium to a PIII), you may not gain all of the performance benefits of the more capable processor. In this case, we recommend that you perform an upgrade (using the same version) to ensure that the correct processor-dependent packages are installed. This will also detect and install the SMP kernel if your newer machine is SMP-capable.

If I'm moving from a P2-266 to a P3-450 do you all think I'll be missing  the extra performance?  Should I perform the upgrade using my E-smith CD 5.1 CD?  

I guess I'm wondering if anyone else has done this, and what kind of success they've had.

Thanks.

Paul

[Jeff Pancrazio]

I havent done this BUT i remember a uption to upgrade on the first install screen, I think this is what it is for, IE.. build the new box, boot from the original CD and choose upgrade and it will rebuild the component specific items and keep the other setups in tack first,, IMHO i would ghost the machine FIRST, then if i had to i could go back to the original everything to cover my A$$.

[Boris]

I've recently moved my SME5.1.2 from P200 to PIII Celeron (1.2G) on completely different computer and it didn't even sneeze. No uprgrade was needed, just moved hard disk to another box. Also since both servers don't have a CDROM. It was installed on yet another workstation (AMD K6-2 550) and before first start with initial configuration moved to the server. I think its preety tolerant unless the hardware way off (SMP vs SP etc.) Ofcourse before you do that backup is a must, not the option.