It should work. Same IDE devices, video card, etc. The IRQ for the modem
may change but that is all stuff you can fix nothing major like the
computer not booting up that I can think off.
Fred
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 11:34 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: [expert] Want to Move HD to new system
>
>
> I have Mandrake 6.1 installed on what is now a dual boot
> system (98, MDK).
> My second HD has a win partition on it (FAT 16) for storing
> of files, and
> the rest is Linux'd. My system is currently a P233mmx
> (Gigabyte board). My
> new board is a Gigabyte BX chipset. CPU will be a PII 450. I
> am (for now)
> going to take all the parts out of the 233 to make the new
> system runable.
> So the question is:
>
> Since I have Linux installed on it's own drive, can I just
> pull the drive
> out and install it in new machine with successful bootup? I
> don't use lilo
> now, I use loadlin. Will this be a problem? What problems
> will I encounter
> in this swap out ??
>
> Brian D. Klar - CVE
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