whiteman808 wrote: > How does situation look in binary-based distros like Debian, Arch? Is > rsyncing old Debian or Arch installation to PC with new processor or > motherboard and configuring hardware-specific stuff sufficient? > >
I haven't used those in ages. Unless something has changed, they are always ready for pretty much any hardware. When you install those, they are set to a common setting for pretty much any CPU in that arch. Basically and amd64 install should work with any amd64 CPU. This is why some run Gentoo. In some cases having settings specific to a CPU can result in code running faster. If you have a install of one of those, I'd think you could swap CPUs and it not matter. If you add a new network card, I think it sees it on boot up, loads the module(s) that makes it work and then you just configure it to use DHCP or whatever. Heck, it may activate itself as well. Again, it's been ages since I even booted one of those. Dale :-) :-)
