Mark,Hi Team
Im just getting to know Linux and Mandrake and need to know how Linux/Mandrake handles the following situation:-
1) Lets say I install Mandrake on one PC, and setup web servers (Apache), services etc.
2) Then I move that hard disk to another machine - but this second machine has different m/board, video, network etc. (Im proposing to do it this way to minimise down time on the PC Im moving the hard disk to)
Questions: What are the likelyhoods of Mandrake booting to a command line? Booting to a GUI?
If it can only boot to a command line/gui what can I do to get it to recognise the new hardware?
Would a full reinstall over the top recognise the new hardware and yet leave application setups (like Apache) configured?
What whould you suggest is the best way to handle this problem? (And if simply installing on the second PC is the easiest then please tell me that too) :-)
Thanks in advance to anyone who answers
Cheers
Mark :-)
Unless the BIOS handles the hard drive differently, you should have no problems booting to the command line. Booting to the GUI will probably work as well. Harddrake should detect the hardware differences on bootup, and offer to reconfigure things.
I am not sure about Mandrake, but with RedHat you would also run into a problem if you downgraded the CPU. If you installed on a P-III, and then moved the drive to a P-I, you would have the wrong Kernel, and glibc for the CPU. Upgrading is not normaly a problem.
Mikkel --
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