[NTLUG:Discuss] On another note....

[MadHat]

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 12:13, Douglas King wrote:
> I am looking at converting my tower machines into rack mounted very 
> shortly.  I have brought a "back up" board, processor, memory, etc. into 
> the picture.  I only have ONE machine that uses an Intel based processor 
> (didn't see the reason to by "big brother").  When I get down to this Intel 
> machine, and I pull the hard drive to move it to a AMD based 
> processor...what is going to happen?  Will the kernel do whatever it needs 
> to do, and allow the OS (Red Hat 9.0) to boot...without problems?  I've 
> already had a bunch of problems getting 9.0 to load as it is....but then 
> again...I'm still learning Linux too!

In theory it should work fine.  Any other changes in hardware should be
detected by kudzu which is the hardware detector.  I have done it before
with RH8 and it worked with minor tweaks needed.  Its usually best to do
a fresh install if possible though.

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`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here...'
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