Is FreeBSD OS tied to hardware?

M

mefizto

Greetings all,

as the title says - is the installed OS tied in any way to the hardware? Can I move the HD with the installed OS to a different machine (both Intel processor), or should it be safer to reinstall? When reinstalling, is there a way to save all my configurations' settings?

Kindest regards,

M
 
Did you custom-build the base system or kernel? Did you configure anything to be hardware-specific? If not, moving the disk should be fine.
 
Ah, the interface cards might be different. For example, your current /etc/rc.conf might have something like em0 and the new one might have a different card. In that case, when you first boot, you won't get network connectivity but it's easily fixed. Run ifconfig and see the name of the current card, then change your rc.conf accordingly. The only other problem might be /etc/fstab if one machine has sata drives and the other sas or something like that, but, if you mean will have issues as one does with moving a drive in Windows, no.
 
Hi scottro,

thank you for the reply. Yes, there will be some need to amend the configurations files, great example with the /etc/rc.conf. I am also not sure about it correctly reading hard-drive labels, but I think that I can figure those out. And, yes, I was concerned with a Windows-like hardware dependency.

Kindest regards,

M
 
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