On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 23:55, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > Dear Debain-Users, > > > A while back I used an old p166 as a proof of concept for a > debian/apache-ssl/php4/pear/horde/imp/imap webmail service. > > Thing have gone well, but the old hardware is very slow. > > What is the recommend way to move the installation to new hardware. > It will still be a pc, ide drives. but different motherboard/cpu/memory. > possible I could use the old nic. > > Can I just install the old HDD and expect debian to reconfigure ? > > Thanks > > Matt > -- > Yes and No - do you have a stock or home-rolled kernel? Are things like the sound and graphic and networking cards the same between the two? Much of the rest *should* be okay, but if you aren't using a stock kernel, you could find drivers missing. I anticipate that if the monitor and/or graphic card are changing, X11 will need re-configuring if you used it (although if this was only a server, you may have left it out.) -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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