On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 13:02, Dennis Nigbur wrote:
Dear list,
I've had a delivery of some new hardware components, including everything but the kitchen sink - a new mainboard, CPU, video card, memory, CD-RW, and floppy drive. I'm keeping my HDD from my previous set-up.
This is a very late reply, but purely for insformation's sake. I did pretty much the same thing - new computer, old hard disk - a while ago while testing different things out. I booted my SuSE 8.0 Pro installation on no less than 9 very different computers. This exercise saw me running on Pentium I,II and III, AMD K6-2, Duron, Athlon and various Celerons. Graphics dards were nVidia TNT2 M64, TNT2 Vanta, various SiS cards, one older rage and a old PCI card (S3 virge I think). The last machine was a brand new AthlonXP 2000+, Gigabyte board with VIA KT400 chipset and Radeon 9000 ProII. With the exception of the radeon, the longest time spent configuring was on one of the SiS cards (6326) and that was only a couple of minutes. A couple clicks in Yast2 was all it took on all the machines. On the Radeon 9000 Yast configured the 2D side properly, but I didn't manage to install the driver from ATi. Didn't have a lot of time on this one. On two of the machines the BIOS couldn't pick up my 40gb hard disc, so I had to switch it to 33gb mode. Linux booted happily, windows broke. On the Pentium I the limit was someting like 8gb, so I had to make a bootstiffy and tell the bios that there's no hard disc. Besides that all was well. Eventually I upgraded my own machine from a Celeron 500 on a VIA based Gigabyte board, to an AthlonXP on VIA KT133a based Gigabyte board - still with the same old SuSE 8.0 Installation. I ran it for a bout two weeks more without any hassles at all - until I got my hands on SuSE 8.1. Bottom line is that SuSE and YAST is extremely cabable of handling new hardware. Just plug it in and fire up yast2. Hans