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<DIV>Thanks for that Cameron, I was referring to Windows NT and in the
Novell enviroment you have to run dsrepair to prepare for a
hardware upgrade.</DIV>
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<DIV>Jon</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>From:</B></I> <A
href="mailto:plug@plug.linux.org.au">plug@plug.linux.org.au</A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>Date:</B></I> Wednesday, July
31, 2002 10:07:32 PM</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>To:</B></I> <A
href="mailto:plug@plug.linux.org.au">plug@plug.linux.org.au</A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>Subject:</B></I> Re: [plug]
Changing hardware on desktop</DIV></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 20:53:44 +0800, Jon Miller
wrote:<BR><BR>| Like to know if Linux is like the other OS's in that there
is a<BR>| procedure when changing hardware. Currently I have a Linux Red
Hat<BR>| 7.2 installed onaa desktop. The hardware is a ASUS motherboard,
AMD<BR>| 750MHz, 512MB memory, DVD, CD-ROM, 3Ccom NIC, Soundblaster,
WD30GB HDD<BR>| and a nVidia 64MB Video Card. I m planning to change the
to a EPoX<BR>| Motherboard (8K3A+) with DDR memory(currently DDR266), WD60
or 100GB<BR>| HDD and the other device I'm changing is the video card to a
GeForce4<BR>| MX440. In the matter of the motherboard in most OS changing
this item<BR>| usually involved either a complete install from scratch or
hardware<BR>| change program. Is Linux the same when it comes to changing
certain<BR>| hardware.<BR><BR>It should Just Work without any fiddling.
The NVIDIA drivers for both Linux and Windows don't care which particular
NVIDIA-chipset card you have, unless you change from a PCI to an AGP card,
in which case you /might/ have to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config. So long as you
either leave the machine with two hard discs, or copy everything over from
one drive to the other, and the partitions have the same numbers, then the
hard drive upgrade should be okay. The Linux kernel should autodetect
everything about the motherboard which it cares about.<BR><BR>You
mentioned some OSes requiring a complete reinstall, so I'm assuming that
you're referring to some of Microsoft's offerings here... Windows is
sometimes really fiddly about motherboard changes - but then again, we
have a Duron 900 running Win95 that has been running the same Windows
installation since 1997. During that time, it has had a motherboard
upgrade, two graphics card upgrades, two hard disc upgrades, a sound card
upgrade and various different printers and network adapters installed.
Despite what some people say about reinstalling Windows annually, it's
never really seemed necessary.<BR><BR>CP.<BR><BR><BR>.</TD>
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