On Tuesday 10 May 2005 1:57 pm, columbo wrote:
Hiya List,
I've got a Suse 9.3/9.2 dual boot going on. I'll be swapping 2 hard-drives into an entirely new system rsn. The hardware configuration is totally different from the current one. Roughly, the current hardware config (relative to what will be changed) is:
700 Mhz Pentium III (Coppermine) NVidia Riva TNT2 Model 64 YMF 744B (Yamaha DS-XG Audio) NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100
New hardware:
Intel Pentium 4 Prescott 3.0 GHz (800 FSB) 1024K Geforce FX5200 128Mb DDR 8x AGP dual head w/tv out AC 97 32 BIT Full Duplex sound card (onboard) 10/100 Network card adapter (onboard)
Should I be aware of any 'gotchas' ahead of time? Will I be spending a late night or two tweaking things? Any advance help/info is appreciated.
TIA
Ken
You most likely will have a few challenges but if you keep the hard drives on the same IDE config you should be alright. That is, if you have /dev/hda and /dev/hdc in the old system then put them on /dev/hda and /dev/hdc respectively in the new one and it should boot. Familiar with editing /etc/fstab and running the rescue CD/DVD? If you use KDE and SuSEplugger is running it should ask you to configure all the new hardware it finds. Before powering off the old system make sure SuSEplugger has at least the "Inform me about new hardware" and the "Start automatically on next login" boxes checked. The Nvidia drivers/cards you will have to update the normal way as if you updated the kernel. Do you have a spare system that you can use to get online to ask for help? If not, can you run each machine off one hard drive; will the old one boot with /dev/hdc and can you use /dev/hda to boot the new system? Disaster planning and all... Best of luck, sounds fun! Stan