can i yank out an old motherboard and put a new one in using the same processor and memory, but a different chipset, and my current installation of SuSE would be ok with that and not cough up hairballs?
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could i buy a new computer system, minus the hard drive, take my current hard drive with SuSE on it out of my older computer system, stick it in my new system, and expect SuSE to be ok with it?
Here's a little success story for you. I'm also the "techie" for the rest of the family. Once or twice a year I take a two or so weeks off, visit all the family, and fix up their computers while I'm at it. This year I was a way for a little longer, so I decided to take my hard drive along to download my e-mail while I'm at it (my mailbox wouldn't have handled all the messages from this list... :-) I plugged my drive into no less than nine PCs with a wide variety of parts. This was with SuSE 8.0 Pro. Mostly I just edited XF86Config and replaced "nvidia" with "ati" or "sis" or whatever (fortunately I've owned enough video cards to know these), and from there un it took only a couple of clicks in Yast2 to get everything to work proplerly. Best was, when I got back home, Yast2 even managed to ressurect my nvidia setup (which took me days of headaches to get going in the first place). This was really cool. That said, I did use the default kernel (going from a celeron 500 back to a PII (where I had to set the "limit to 33gb jumper on my 40gb disc, otherwise the bios hang, and SuSE still loaded) back to a Pentium and up to Athlons and PIII's), and I did settle for a resolution that I knew all the different monitors would handle. Didn't have one hassle getting internet up and running, downloading e-mail, or anything. Windows 2000 broke by the second machine. Couldn't even get it to boot back on my machine... Hans
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is it just better to backup, re-format and re-install anytime i do a major hardware change with SuSE?
are there any basic general guidelines to follow when changing out hardware on a computer with a working linux installation?
my experience with linux is rather limited right now, but if i have some idea what to expect, then i can plan properly for it. and i am rather curious, since these areas don't seem to be talked about much. i am also the "computer guy" for a lot of people and they are starting to ask about linux, and in some of these areas, i don't have any idea what to tell them. especially, since i generally help people roll their own computers.
thanks in advance for any input. michael hallsted
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