[plug] reinstall for new core hardware?

[Daniel Pearson]

Hi Ben,
In my experiences.. Linux has just adapted itself to the new hardware
without a problem, but thats with Debian Linux, so I can't really comment on
Mandrake. I can't see why there would be any major troubles though....

Cheers,
Daniel

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben New" <ben at leftclick.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 3:11 PM
Subject: [plug] reinstall for new core hardware?


> Hi all,
>
> I have a machine running all the usual server-side suspects (web, mail,
> dns, etc).  If I was to take the hard drives from that box (machine A)
> and put them into another (machine B), including the OS partitions
> (containing /, /usr, /etc...), would machine B boot?  Mandrake 9.1 is
> the OS, with quite a few updates, and of course many customisations,
> applied.  I'm planning to move the machine to Debian soon, but not until
> I've explored it with machine A first.
>
> Machine A is a celeron 533 and machine B is a dual P3 500 with an Intel
> N440BX board (upgraded firmware for the P3's).  A slight improvement ;-)
>
> They both have onboard graphics, but I'd have to assume different
> drivers are required.  Machine B has onboard LAN while machine A has a
> generic PCI NIC, so different drivers there also.  That's not counting
> the rest of the onboard resources - controllers, etc.
>
> Obviously there will need to be a kernel compile in there somewhere (in
> my case, probably about 5 or 6 before I get it right) with the increased
> number of processors and probably other things (?)
>
> What I'm mostly interested in is the boot process, the first time in the
> new box.  Will the OS cope with the changes to the entire set of system
> resources?  How automated will the process of detecting and installing
> the correct drivers be?  Will it be easier to just save the contents of
> /etc and a few other locations, wipe the rest of the OS and reinstall,
> then copy back /etc (etc)?
>
> I'm not even sure if this is a general Linux question, or more
> specifically a Mandrake question (probably both actually) so any advice
> or info would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Ben
>
>
> -- 
> Ben New
> ben at leftclick.com.au
>
> Leftclick Software Development
> http://www.leftclick.com.au/
>
>
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