Secondary HDA, or regular Linux install?

[inquam]

I'm about to move my current Amahi installation from my current Scaleo Home Server based setup to a new beefier system. The old one, which is really quite and energy efficient will be turned into a TV streaming server handling all the TV in our house and being connected to a couple of Satellite Tuners.

* Will it work to just move the disks over to the new computer or are there HW specific thing tieing the installation to a given machine?
* What would be best for the old server, installing another HDA onto that one or a regular Linux install (thinking of Ubuntu Server or Fedora). Are there any benefits to adding a secondary HDA to the network or could it in fact complicate things?

[sgtfoo]

It's mostly up to you. Having amahi on your Server means you need Ubuntu 12 or Fedora 14 at this time. It would provide an easier platform for having shares on your network, and yes you can have 2 HDAs, but only one can be DHCP/DNS because of conflicts that would occur.

read the amahi wiki about having 2 HDAs.

And yea otherwise, what you do with your new/old server it up to you.

As for moving your hard drives over... Linux is very forgiving with hardware. It advisable though to track what SATA ports your drives are in (in sequence) and try to have them plugged in to the same sequence and also with the same boot sequence. Otherwise it would take some messing around in the /etc/fstab to fix it up.

have fun!