I had RH8 installed on a Asus VIA board w/ a 900 MHz Athlon. CPU died. I built a new box using an Asus A7N8X Deluxe and XP 2700+.
No more was I using the SoundBlaster Live, the VooDoo3, USB was now OHCI opposed to UHCI, I didn't move the old NIC's over. Only thing that was the same was the hard drive, cdrw drive, and PCI modem (rarely used - only when broadband is down and I _must_ connect) Everything went perfectly - the nics on the new board were not supported by the default kernel. It detected they were removed. Once I built the new kernel (which supported the 3com nic) kudzo migrated the old eth0 settings on over - couldn't have been easier. Ditto for eth0 once I installed nvidia's evil ;) kernel tainting closed source nvnet driver. ( btw - please sign my petition at http://petitiononline.com/nforce2/petition.html ) Only thing I had to manually do is have the i810_audio drive load in /etc/rc.local Linux handles changing motherboard/cpu very well - especially with kudzo. You think an expensive commercial OS like Windows would be on par - but apparently not ;) -=- I think it's more tricky when going from AMD to Intel (or vice versa) - I think to do that, you'd need build a kernel that supports both before changing. not positive though. Also - you want to recompile mplayer after changing the cpu. On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 08:42, Tony Preston wrote: > RH 6.2 was a totally different story, it recognized the new stuff, forgot about > the old stuff and booted normally (even recognized the change in video cards!). > I was absolutely amazed (especially after the Win 98 experience....). > > I know this is like preaching to the choir, but I really was expecting a bit more > than just rebooting to upgrade just about everything....:) > -- Michael A. Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
