Gary Waters wrote: > Yes, this is a newbie question...sorry ;-) > > I presently have an ECS K7S5A motherboard with an SIS-735 chipset. I'm > running an AMD XP2000+ CPU. I am considering upgrading to the ECS KT-600 > Motherboard with a VIA KT600 Chipset: > > http://www.ecsusa.com/products/af1lite.html > > The Board does have SATA ports, which I will not be using. I will more > than likely upgrade to an XP2600+ or higher CPU. > > My question is simple: will Fedora survive the transition and/or what > should I expect in terms of results? > Just over 18 months ago, my main system was an old HP Pavilion (Pentium II). I had been running Linux on this for about 18 months. This system contained my DNS, NTP, Samba, Squid, etc... I think you get how important this server was! When it died suddenly, I was faced with the task of building a new system. I went to my favorite PC hobby shop (PC Microcenter) and bought a bare bones system. To make a long story short, I had 3 bad power supplies, so the last time it was replaced, I had them load boot the system first. Well, the manager asked me what OS I was running. When I told him LInux, he smiled and called on of his Windoze bigots to watch the system boot. system recognized that the hardware platform had changed (P II to P III), and proceeded to reconfigure itself and boot properly. The only minor problem I has was my swap space since I upgraded from 128 MB to 512 MB. I changed that and the system has been running smoothly ever since. So, go ahead and change the hardware, Linux is not as dependent or stringent as Windoze.... Ed
