On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, John Rye wrote:
>I am running thru my list of startup services disabling
>all those I don't routinely need to load.
>
>I note that at each reboot (I doing lots at present) kudzu
>runs and does a check for new hardware.
>
>Do I really need to run this as the hardware doesn't change
>and is not likely to change in the near future?
Somewhere in Linuxconf (don't recall exactly where in boot options) you
can switch off the hardware checker.
>And out of that comes another question... If when I finally get
>to replace this aging Pentium 133 mobo with some more recent
>(say 386sx16 or similar) - is is just a matter of swapping
>the existing hardware and rebooting OR........???
As long as you have your /home dir on a separate partition you should be
fine. It is best to format and reload the root partition, and also the
/usr partition. At least that is my experience.
Paul
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