Bud Rogers wrote: > > On Friday 09 February 2001 04:57, Lyall Ward wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am planning on upgrading my debian (potato) box buy 'replacing' > > mother board, CPU and RAM. I know the RAM will not be a problem, but > > what about the motherboard and CPU? Is it possible to do this without > > a reinstall(going from TX mobo with pentium MMX to Bx with cleron)? I > > have not compiled a custom kernel. And all cards and hard drives will > > remain the same. > > I did essentially that a couple of months ago. Assuming the bios > settings on the new board recognize your drives properly, it should > Just Work.
Same here. I eventually did a fresh install of potato, but I tried my old slink system on the new mainboard and it worked right out of the box. Good luck, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ Geek Code (3.1): GCS/SS d-@ s+: a20 C++@ UL++$ P+ L+++ E--- W++ N++ o? K? !W O? M? V? PS++@ PE+(-) Y+ P?(+++) t+ 5+ X- R? !tv b+ DI+ D- G e>+++ h-- r- !y+
