Hi, Gilbert!

Thanks! The disk is already wd0 on the old machine. It's IDE and moving 
to another machine with IDE. Should work.

Kernel is GENERIC. So I seem to be all set.

Definitely not using X on that machine. It's a mail / web server. :)

One question... machine has a Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet controler (it's 
a SHUTTLE XPC ST20G5). Does the NetBSD driver properly work with this 
device? On Linux, the default driver in the kernel hands on high volumes 
for this card...

Thanks!

Gilles.


Gilbert Fernandes wrote:
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>
>>  I am plannign to move my system disk to a new motherboard... is 
>> there anything I need
>> to do?
>
> Since the kernel is monolithic, moving the disk to another machine 
> should have
> it to boot properly. You should not encounter any problem if you are
> using GENERIC
> or something very close to it.
>
>> I imagine that the disk and network card names will likely change?
>
> The disk will be wd0 and/or wd1 very probably. The code used to talk to
> the hard-disk might not be the same, but it should appear exactly as 
> before
> in the new machine.
>
>> I am using the machine in text console mode, so don't expect to have 
>> to reconfigure X.
>
> If you are using the console, you are not using X ;)
>
> X might require reconfig if the graphic card is not the same. Just using
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86cfg will do an auto-detect of screen/video card.
>
>> Should I expect any trouble? Any command I have to type to re-scan 
>> the hardware?
>
> The kernel does that on boot :)
>
> Make sure you are using GENERIC.
>

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