3.6 Obtain Hardware
Configuration Disks
If you plan to migrate an existing machine, it may prove useful to have
copies of the important configuration files on a diskette because:
- You may need to look up some machine or user-specific data, for example,
MAC address, TCP/IP address and hostname, but you wouldn't be able to check it
without interrupting the migration process.
- You may have to reset configuration data to its prior value since it was
modified by the installation program during the migration process. We found out
that the CACHESIZE= in the HPFS386.INI file was reset to a standard
value if not configured manually. This prevented the server service to start
after the migration.
The following configuration files, if present on your
machine, would be candidates for being saved to a diskette.
Table 14: Important Configuration Files
3.8 Back Up Your
System