Re: Motherboard Change- will Fedora survive?

From: Ed Gurski (ed_at_gurski.com)
Date: 04/26/04

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:31:22 -0400

    Gary Waters wrote:

    > Yes, this is a newbie question...sorry ;-)
    >
    > I presently have an ECS K7S5A motherboard with an SIS-735 chipset. I'm
    > running an AMD XP2000+ CPU. I am considering upgrading to the ECS
    KT-600
    > Motherboard with a VIA KT600 Chipset:
    >
    > http://www.ecsusa.com/products/af1lite.html
    >
    > The Board does have SATA ports, which I will not be using. I will more
    > than likely upgrade to an XP2600+ or higher CPU.
    >
    > My question is simple: will Fedora survive the transition and/or what
    > should I expect in terms of results?
    >
    Just over 18 months ago, my main system was an old HP Pavilion (Pentium
    II). I had been running Linux on this for about 18 months. This system
    contained my DNS, NTP, Samba, Squid, etc... I think you get how
    important this server was!

    When it died suddenly, I was faced with the task of building a new
    system. I went to my favorite PC hobby shop (PC Microcenter) and bought
    a bare bones system. To make a long story short, I had 3 bad power
    supplies, so the last time it was replaced, I had them load boot the
    system first.

    Well, the manager asked me what OS I was running. When I told him LInux,
    he smiled and called on of his Windoze bigots to watch the system boot.

    system recognized that the hardware platform had changed (P II to P
    III), and proceeded to reconfigure itself and boot properly. The only
    minor problem I has was my swap space since I upgraded from 128 MB to
    512 MB. I changed that and the system has been running smoothly ever
    since.

    So, go ahead and change the hardware, Linux is not as dependent or
    stringent as Windoze....

    Ed 

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