On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 14:52, Bret Hughes wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 13:30, Sachintha Karunaratne wrote: > > hi, > > i wish to change my motherboard. but > > one of my friends had to reinstall linux > > after changing his motherboard. i > > want to know whether that situation is > > normal? > > > > <caveat>I have not done this with >=8.0</caveat> > Unless you built a kernel and removed all but the stuff specific to your > chipset I can;t imagine why this is necessary. I have pulled drives > from one box and put it into another which is tantamount to changing > everything that can be changed with now problems. > > There are likely to be issues of there are multiple nics as the order > they are detected might change the interface name but I can't think of > anything that would cause wholesale reinstall other than the windows "If > it has a problem reboot. If it still has a problem reinstall." mindset. > > I have never understood why windows always had so many problems loading > new drivers for different hardware. > > Bret
I have also pulled drives from one box and put them in others using RH 7.2 with no real issues. These were vastly different boxes with different boards, processors memory etc. For me, RH detected the changes in sound and video etc on bootup and asked me to accept the changes. I never had an issue doing this...maybe I was just lucky?! Vince -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
