I don't have a system similar to my active server, and I'd like to install
CentOS to a new drive on a spare system and then load that disk in my
server once it's configured with the services I need. How
hardware-independent is a server installation? What should I look out for
when doing this?
I've been using Linux on servers for several years and am a
software/hardware integrator by day. It seems like this should be trivial
but I'd like to know if I'm missing any obvious gotchas.
I'm guessing the biggest issue is associating eth names with actual
devices (modules.conf?), since the systems are unlikely to use the same
Ethernet hardware.
Hello, Kenneth.
One of the main problems you might have is when the two servers don't have
the same hard disk driver chip manufacturer (SATA driver for example, on the
mainboard side). In this case, your system would not boot at all, as not all
sata drivers are put into the initrd file by default. It only takes the one
that was present on the installed server, and then makes any move not easily
possible.
But if the two servers are the same, then no problems doing that.
Regards,
Daniel
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