Re: Install on new M.B.

In article <Cpmdnbdc9NIVOlnanZ2dnUVZ_obinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
schvantzkopf@xxxxxxxxx (General Schvantzkopf) writes:

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:50:58 +0000, Lloyd Branum wrote:

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:38:19 -0600, General Schvantzkopf wrote:

Try Fedora 8, it uses the most recent kernel.

I believe opensuse 10.3 does also.

F8 installs with a 2.6.23 kernel, I suspect that Suse 10.3 starts
with 2.6.22 although it may have a 2.6.23 update.

When I replaced my motherboard, the kernel on my original Linux boot
disk (IDE) came up just fine, but it couldn't see the two SATA drives
that were also attached. I was running Slackware 10.0, which normally
comes with a 2.4 kernel, although I had built and was using the
optional 2.6.13 kernel that comes with it.

I moved up to Slackware 12.0 (kernel 2.6.21.5), which had no trouble
recognizing the SATA drives and their contents (whew!).

BTW I tried fiddling around with upgrading the existing system,
but in the end I just blew it away and installed the new version
from scratch. That saved me a lot of pain in the long run,
especially since my /home was safely tucked away on one of
those SATA drives and remained intact. Just for security,
though, I backed up /etc before blowing away the original
installation.

Another point of interest: the new system wouldn't reformat the
root partition when I told it to - it just came back immediately
as if it had, but the old stuff was still there. I had to
erase the partitions on the drive and re-create them before
I could do a full installation from scratch.

Separate partitions for /home (and other data directories, if any)
is definitely the way to go.

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