-- useless story on as yet another attempt to get my not working usb to work, i decided to dust of the internals of my Sempron based PC. Despite 2 kids running around and trying to get into the PC. I managed to carefully take it apart. Take a CPU fan off and clean it all out. after all these operations i became very proud of myself - i managed not to brake anything and didn't let 2 and 1 yo to get their hands on the parts. AND they have not been screaming at me for that %).
anyhow , i started to put all parts back together... and then i dropped a damn CPU with the sink on the table. Just like that - just dropped it. anyway, my wife's tweezers became handy to straighten out the dozen of bended pins. And another 40 minutes later, when i' was proudly observing meticulously fixed pins, I made another retarded attempt to put the CPU in.. I ended up with a broken out pin. Needless to describe the rainbow of the emotions I went thru ... Next 3 hours i spent on fatwallet. the results are pretty cool - i wasted $106 for Phenom X4 + MSI NF725GM motherboard, $15 for the 4Gb of DDR3 RAM and ~$6 for a fan with a sink. Since i'm old "dude" and still remember i386 ringing ~$1400 the idea of holding 4 core CPU for $49.99 make me "philosophical". another amazing thing - all parts fitted nicely in my 7 yo box and i managed not to drop, bent, destroy anything. --useless story off all this brings me to a simple question - how do i move from i686 SL 6.1 that was running on Sempron to Phenom ( which is 64 and 4 cores ) system? another trick - the new motherboard has only one IDE controller, so i can't run CD/DVD and 2 IDEs at the same time. The root is on LV which resides on these two IDE drives. BIOS has an option to boot from USB. I figured that if i can place image on usb then i can probably painlessly upgrade.... am i missing smth in my overloaded with tequila mind? Thank you guys! Andrew
