On 9/25/2013 9:33 PM, Gavin Flower wrote: > On 26/09/13 13:26, David wrote: >> On 9/25/2013 9:13 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote: >>> On 09/25/2013 05:45 PM, David wrote: >>>> On 9/25/2013 7:19 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote: >>>>> Several of my machies have SATA hot swap ports. >>>>> These make it easy to use smaller drives as backup media. >>>>> >>>>> When RC4 came out I installed it on a 4 TB drive using an >>>>> older E6550 machine. At my leisure I added lots of apps >>>>> and libs that I normally use. >>>>> >>>>> Then I slipped that drive in my omen.com server and changed >>>>> the boot order to boot that drive. I changed hostname and >>>>> domainname, restored some of my control files, and omen.com >>>>> was back on the air relatively quickly. >>>>> >>>>> I was fortunate this procedure worked as netinst was unable to >>>>> install RC4 while running on the server. >>>>> >>>>> This "trick" depends on Fedora apparently being able to make modest >>>>> adjustments to the machine environment on boot up. >>>>> >>>>> Is this a valid procedure? >>>>> >>>> A "valid procedure?" >>>> >>>> Hmm.. >>>> >>>> Sounds like a eclectic procedure and situation to me. >>>> >>> My concern is wether this procedure results in a kernel that is >>> less optimized for the CPU it is running on than if Fedora had >>> been installed directly on that machine. >>> >>> I don't know enough about Fedora installation to know what, >>> if any, processor related optimizations are made in the install >>> instead of boot time. >>> >> >> More clearly said? Name two other people with your situation please. >> > This a procedure, that I might like to do something like. > > I have a working F19 installation on a box with a Haswell processor. It > would be good if I could clone that, boot the clone on a box with an > older Intel processor (though also a quad core 64 bit processor) and > make minor changes. > > I suspect that there will be more than 3 people interested. > > > Cheers, > Gavin > Well. Than answers that then. You now have a somewhat limited eclectic 'circle jerk'. Enjoy. -- David -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
