-----Original Message----- From: mark bannister <mark@injection-moldings.com> To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 18:42:48 -0500 Subject: [SLE] Newbie -- New Motherboard -- this was easy
My motherboard just went on my new SuSE 8.2 setup. Since this is my file server I had to get it up running quickly so I ran out and bought a new Asus P4P80-VM motherboard, new P4 chip, and new memory. Put it all back together, booted from the hard disk and it all came up nicely. KDE detected new video, reconfigured 1Gig NIC (OK it hung there but restarted and was happy), found new IDE controller but Yast2 decided it couldn't configure anything. This is great!!!! Now, should I reinstall SuSE from scratch just to make sure everything is kosher? I had a few warnings at startup but they were minor things like the extra parallel port. If I do reinstall SuSE I of course want to keep all my configuration settings for Samba, Cups, etc. What's the best way to do this besides saving off each config file one by one? Any advice would be great. Thanks Mark B.
Go into YaST and do a system upgrade and use your current version of DVD/CD for the install. This should (I think) fix any problem dependencies. Ken