[plug] reinstall for new core hardware?

[Ben New]

Thanks for the advice from Daniel Pearson, James Budworth, James 
Devenish and Craig Ringer.  It all looks to be as straight-forward as I 
was hoping it would be.

I'm using lilo because it's what I'm used to.  I am using a stock 
kernel, so I will try what Craig suggested, i.e. using urpmi to install 
the smp kernel.  The order of drives isn't changing so that shouldn't be 
an issue.  (In fact what is actually happening is that the motherboard 
is being changed, the hard drives are staying in the case, but it seemed 
somehow easier to explain it the way I did).

The fact that Linux autodetects hardware on boot, while Windows (I 
think) keeps a persistent configuration, seems to be quite a substantial 
difference between the two systems.  Imagine going through the Windows 
driver installation process everytime you turn your PC on...  
"installation successful: please reboot your computer" ;-/

I'll post the results to the list, including any problems I run into, 
once things are up and running again. 

Regards,
Ben


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Ben New
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Leftclick Software Development
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