Re: Mother board and CPU upgrade
Agreed. Linux can run independent of the hardware. I'm swapping hard
drives around constantly between different machines and they always boot-up.
Go for it!!
-Jason
----- Original Message -----
From: Viktor Rosenfeld <rosenfel@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
To: Lyall Ward <law@osgiliath.ath.cx>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 7:14 AM
Subject: 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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