In my experience, 2K Pro (which is what we have on almost everything) handles changing hardware MUCH better than 98 did. So moving from GX270 hardware to GX280 hardware *SHOULD* work, at least in theory.
What I needed it for yesterday was to restore our GX270 image onto a new GX280, as a one-time thing (one user's hard drive crapped out, such that on bootup when the drivers were initializing, a bluescreen showed up for about half a second, and then the machine rebooted).
I am wondering whether this would actually work, though, from some of the other comments here. I guess the SATA controller in the GX280s would be one huge problem that I hadn't thought of before.
But even with different images, we don't really want to have two different boot media floating around, if possible. If we could use the Knoppix (or whatever) CD against the old Ghost image files on our server, then that's preferable to having one Knoppix CD and one DOS CD (with four different network card drivers on it).
Not required, by any means, I suppose, if the 270 image doesn't work. (And it won't be required once we get another large batch of 280s, because then I'll do the full setup on one of them, and clone that image to the rest.) It would just be nicer to be able to keep only one CD image if possible. |
