It probably will serve as a way to do it. I wouldn't try this kind of
trickery with, say, Red Hat, but Slackware has always been pretty good about
being moved from the system it was set up on to a new system. The old kernel
should run on the new harware, though, and it should be faster to do the
kernel recompile on the new CPU.
Do you really mean to say that you're changing the CPU but not the
motherboard? If not, if you are changing motherboards, you want to watch for
any BOIS-related issues. The one I can think of is hard-disk translation. I
recently bought a motherboard that does LBA translation oddly. It was no
real trick to set up Linux on it, but moving a disk that was set up on a
different system could easily have introduced 1024-cylinder problems.
At 01:44 AM 1/7/00 +0100, Jeroen Van de Voorde wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Planning to upgrade a pc running Linux Slackware 7.0 on a AMD 233MMX to
>the same HW except I'm
>gonna change it to a PII 300 and an AGP Videocard.
>Just to make sure, this is what I plan to do:
>1 Compile a new kernel with support for the PII (guess that's PPRO
>family)
>2 Configure LILO so I can choose between the original and the new kernel
>
>3 Change the HW
>4 Boot system, start LILO with the new kernel
>5 Reconfigure X
>Is this the right way?
>
>Thanx in advance,
>
> Jeroen
>
>
>
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