Re: "Restoring" system after MB/processor upgrade
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 16:22, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 12:07:04AM -0400, Neal Lippman (nl@lippman.org) wrote:
> > I'm thinking about upgrading my system from its current AMD Athlon XP
> > based system to a P4 (actually, I need to put together a new system for
> > my son, so I'm thinking of giving him my current MB/processor and
> > putting a new MB/processor into my system).
> >
> > Obviously, I don't want to lose my current testing installation in the
> > process. I'm hoping that an MB/processor swap into the case and a reboot
> > will leave me just with a rerun of modconf to change installed modules
> > to match the new hardward's ethernet and sound cards (I'm goign to reuse
> > my current video card) and I'll be back in business.
>
> Most likely, nothing's going to change.
That was my assumption / hope...but you never know.
>
> There are no drivers specific to the CPU (mostly), though there are
> kernel flavors specific to specific kernel architectures. If you're
> upgrading CPUs within the P4 familiy, it's a transparent change.
Well, I'm going from an Athlon XP to a P4 system; the new system will
probably by i865 based - as far as I can tell, 2.4.21 supports the 865
chipset. With sATA, on board lan, etc, there will be some modconf'ing to
do. The only package I am aware of that is specifically compiled for the
K7 platform is mplayer, so I'll obviously need to remove and reinstall
the 586 platform version.
>
> Best bet is to have bootable media (boot floppy, Tom's Root Boot,
> LNX-BBC, Knoppix) handy.
I always keep a tom's root boot handy just in case (it's also helpful
at work when I need to reboot a windows workstation into Linux too <g>).
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