Greg Stewart wrote:
>
> I have swapped motherboards with no problem under linux. You should make an
> attempt to turn kudzu back on before you do, or you could run into
> problems..
>
> Also, if you have PnP disabled in this BIOS, make sure you disable it in the
> BIOS of the new MOBO... this can royally screw you by swapping comm ports
> and making NICs and things do funny dances. I wound up having my eth0 and
> eth1 swapped on me without warning, and I felt like an idot after an hour of
> fiddling to find that it was the damnable PnP.
>
> --Greg
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > How do crazy people go through the forest?
> > They take the psycho path.
> >
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> >
> >
>
>
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Thanks Greg - that's exactly what I was looking
Cheers
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