On Friday 20 January 2006 21:02, water modem wrote: > I have given up searching the Debian sites and Google and usenet groups > for the answer to a simple question. > If I want to upgrade a Sarge 2.6 install to a new motherboard without > re-installing Debian....
"Sarge" is the name of the 3.1 stable release of Debian. You are confusing it with the Linux kernel of version 2.6.x which is the kernel that provides drivers for your hardware. Whether the hardware is detected depends very much on the Linux kernel you install. The default kernel package that ships with Debian supports a wide variety of hardware devices. So unless you have created a kernel from your own configuration settings you will likely have no trouble upgrading to new hardware. But that is beyond the scope of Debian. See [1] for a document which lists the hardware that is supported by Linux. Please take your question to a user support mailing list ([2]). This mailing list only deals with non-technical issues regarding the Debian project. So this is rather off-topic here. Thanks. Good luck with your upgrade. Kindly Christoph Haas [1] http://mirrors.kernel.org/LDP/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/index.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]