[plug] reinstall for new core hardware?

[Craig Foster]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-admin at plug.linux.org.au 
> [mailto:plug-admin at plug.linux.org.au] On Behalf Of Ben New
> Sent: Monday, 5 January 2004 3:12 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> 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.

<snip>
 
> 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

The Nightshade N440BX is nothing special...
The only problem I've found is some distro's choke on the dual-channel
symbios SCSI on-board.
(incessant SCSI timeouts even when properly terminated and/or nothing on the
chain)
Other than that, the CirrusLogic 5480 uses Xfree's SVGA module, NIC uses
e100/eepro100 (take your pick) and once it's up and running with the
uniprocessor kernel, you can update to an SMP kernel  using urpmi. (also
gives you a chance to have both uni- and multi-processor kernel options in
lilo

PS It runs WhiteBox Linux 3.0a and doesn't bat an eyelid :P

Craig F.
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