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What changes need to be made after moving the system drive to a new computer? (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 1 year ago by moon@lemmy.sdf.org to c/openbsd@lemmy.sdf.org
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When moving the drive that has OpenBSD installed on it to a new machine, the new hardware is not automatically configured.
For example, the new network interface does not appear in ifconfig, and the new DVD drive does not magically appear in fstab.

Surely there are other adjustments that would need to be made as well.

Therefore,
What changes need to be made after moving the system drive to a new computer?

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[–] moon@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago

Thank you.
In this specific case, both machines use I217-LM network interfaces, but on the new machine, em0 does not show up in the output of ifconfig, as was expected.

How can the machine be made to see the device?