david smethurst wrote: > i am changing motherboards and cpu > i want to keep my current load on the hard drive. > can do a repair on it to pick up the chipsets on the board? > both are 64bit boards and its fc3-64 > hard drive is sata and that will be the only thing which will be the > same. I've swapped from a dual Celeron (Pentium II era) with an Intel chipset to a single Athlon 64 on an nVidia chipset, with FC3. It Just Worked (for what I was using: I'm not sure I got the on-board Ethernet configured, but then I was about to re-install with FC3 64, so I wasn't too bothered). Windows 2000 needed a re-install. Having said that, watch out for your initrd and your SATA drivers. Fedora can do the lot once it's got / mounted. But if you're changing SATA chipsets, you may need to make a new initrd: see man mkinitrd. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | Watch your grammar, teams: the double negative is a @westexe.demon.co.uk | complete no-no. | -- "I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue", BBC Radio 4