Re: Red Hat Question - Motherboard
- From: Mark South <mark.south@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 22:09:29 +0100
On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 11:24:38 +0000, Dave {Reply Address in.Sig} wrote:
> In message <1133897197.830987.261170@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> amerar@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> My two Red Hat boxes both have the same motherboard, ASUS A7N8X Deluxe.
>> I need to change them both. I'm not very good with Linux, and want to
>> know if I can swap the motherboards easily?
>>
>> Will I need to do a lot of re-installs?
>>
> Based on my experience in swapping motherboards, including going from a Via
> chipset to an nForce one, it's trivial provided Linux can cope with all
> your peripherals. You just connect the hard disk to the new machine, it
> boots up, Kudzu comes to life and tells you a load of things that are no
> longer present and asks if you want to remove the drivers, then it tells
> you a load of things that are now present and would you like to install the
> drivers. It does help if you keep the same graphics card, I think I had one
> instance where I had to reconfigure X to get my screen resolution back when
> I switched graphics card.
I have performed the following experiment:
Install Mandrake Linux 10.1 on an IDE disk in first PC.
Run PC like that for a few days, all working fine.
Remove disk and install as boot disk (ie, first BIOS disk) in a different
PC, with different motherboard, drives, graphics card, different amount of
RAM, different monitor (CRT instead of LCD).
Mandrake booted up and ran flawlessly first time and many times
thereafter.
So it is possible, and quite easy.
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