I once installed slackware on a 486 on a 2.1 quantam drive, took the drive
out and dropped it into a whole new K62 system and it worked.
When you do this, make sure the boot drive is in the same place as when it
was installed (ussually primary master) and also check the CMOS table to
make sure the bios "sees" the hard drive, boot up, it will boot.
If there is new hardware on the motherboard (serial/parellel/SCSI/sound) you
/may/ (and this is a big may) have to recompile the kernel for these new
devices. It should atleast boot up and use most (if not all) of the
hardware. If both boards have the same basic setup, (2 serial/1 parellel
for both boards) you shouldn't have to much of a problem.
Also if you are going from a lower grade proc to a higher grade
(486->pentium) there should not be any problems. But if you compiled your
kernel for a pentIII and plan to drop it in a 386 box you might have trouble
there, since new cpu ussually have "expanded" instruction sets, where as new
cpu are also backware compatiable with older procs.
A kernel compiled for the 386 should work on all X86 CPUs, where as a kernel
compiled for an Althon probably would have trouble working with a 386. You
can go up classes, but /ussually/ not down classes.
Since you said "upgrade" I will assume you are either going with a higher
class or same class CPU, which in that case, no you shouldn't have to many
problems with it.
Jack
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Moseley
At 11:49 AM 03/22/00 -0500, Nick Zentena wrote:
Bill Moseley wrote:
2) Otherwise, say I want to upgrade the motherboard and memory together. Will I be lucky enough to drop in a new motherboard and Linux will boot, or do I need to go through installation again?
I'd like an answer to this to.
How about the Linux move? In stall my EIDE drives ( a 1.6 and a 10.2) and boot right up? Or do I need to do some type of re-installation to get the kernel to see the change in motherboard hardware?
Thanks for the info!
Bill Moseley mailto:moseley@hank.org
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