Swapping a linux hard drive into another machine

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jaoudestudios
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Swapping a linux hard drive into another machine

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Hey,

I have a development server at home which has fedora 8 on it and running loads of stuff (svn etc). I now want to use a different server machine (which is higher spec) but with the same hard drive. Can I just swap the hard drive in to the newer machine? Or will I have issues?

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I've done this several times successfully - you may need to load the appropriate modules for you hardware - NIC especially.

Just try it :)
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VladSun wrote:I've done this several times successfully - you may need to load the appropriate modules for you hardware - NIC especially.
Cool, thanks, I will try it in 2 hours when I get home :)

If I need to load modules for the new hardware, can I do this through YUM?
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Decided against that server setup in the end. I have organised my servers differently. But thanks for the feedback :)
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