See below.

"songbird" wrote in message
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> if i copy all of the partitions of one disk to another
> from two identical machines (except for the network cards
> probably having different MAC addresses) will i need to
> change anything other than the IP and names of the copied
> to partitions?

You don't need to do anything else. However, just because
the two machines ***look*** identical does not mean that
they ***are*** identical. If you have a problem then it
would be helpful if you described the exact symptoms.

> i've already tried this and have had no luck so i'm
> thinking i've missed something somewheres. the other
> thing is that i'm thinking that perhaps the network card
> itself was also fried in the incident that corrupted the
> disk, but i won't be able to try that tack until next
> week.
>
> while i do have access to identical working machines
> i don't have all the install disks (missing one of them
> someplace) and i'm not sure i can get the drivers for
> these NICS to install easily on windows NT (which is why
> i finally reverted to copying partitions to see if i
> could make progress that ways).
>
> also i did make sure that i had identical IRQ settings
> on both machines too. all looks the same.
>
> any help appreciated.
>
>
> songbird *peep*
>
>

Pegasus (MVP) wrote:
>songbird wrote:

> > if i copy all of the partitions of one disk to another
> > from two identical machines (except for the network cards
> > probably having different MAC addresses) will i need to
> > change anything other than the IP and names of the copied
> > to partitions?
>
> You don't need to do anything else. However, just because
> the two machines ***look*** identical does not mean that
> they ***are*** identical. If you have a problem then it
> would be helpful if you described the exact symptoms.

that is true, i am assuming that the four machines are
all identical since they were built/delivered/installed
all at the same time. i will double check that next week
when i get a chance to get back there to them.

as for specifics, i don't have the machine with me
right here so i have to go there/write things down/
come back here/etc. (as in also next week). what i can
remember is that something doesn't start that should
E190e (which looks to me like a NIC driver), the NIC itself
lights up only when initially getting power and then nothing
else. and the number that comes up is something like 5008
(in the error message in the event logs). alas, i have none
of this written down to be sure.

what i did want to verify was that i wasn't missing
something obvious. thank you for verifying that for me.


> > i've already tried this and have had no luck so i'm
> > thinking i've missed something somewheres. the other
> > thing is that i'm thinking that perhaps the network card
> > itself was also fried in the incident that corrupted the
> > disk, but i won't be able to try that tack until next
> > week.
> >
> > while i do have access to identical working machines
> > i don't have all the install disks (missing one of them
> > someplace) and i'm not sure i can get the drivers for
> > these NICS to install easily on windows NT (which is why
> > i finally reverted to copying partitions to see if i
> > could make progress that ways).
> >
> > also i did make sure that i had identical IRQ settings
> > on both machines too. all looks the same.
> >
> > any help appreciated.
> >
> >
> > songbird *peep*


songbird

songbird wrote:
....

turns out that it was a dead network card. put a
replacement card in and it worked just fine.

thank you for your help,


songbird