Re: Mother board and CPU upgrade
Bud Rogers wrote:
>
> On Friday 09 February 2001 04:57, Lyall Ward wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am planning on upgrading my debian (potato) box buy 'replacing'
> > mother board, CPU and RAM. I know the RAM will not be a problem, but
> > what about the motherboard and CPU? Is it possible to do this without
> > a reinstall(going from TX mobo with pentium MMX to Bx with cleron)? I
> > have not compiled a custom kernel. And all cards and hard drives will
> > remain the same.
>
> I did essentially that a couple of months ago. Assuming the bios
> settings on the new board recognize your drives properly, it should
> Just Work.
Same here. I eventually did a fresh install of potato, but I tried my
old slink system on the new mainboard and it worked right out of the
box.
Good luck,
Viktor
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