Hello, In general, and upgrade, as long you you complaint hardware (no fancy SATA raids, etc) should work just fine. I did it a couple of times in the past and RedHat/Fedora never failed me. (Though YMMV) However, before you start, make sure you have a rescue CD handy. At times, the different IDE/SATA configuration on the new board might change the IDE channel arrangement pushing your root from /dev/hdaN to /dev/hdeN, etc. Second, If you plan on spending >200-300$ on a new board/CPU/etc, you can surely spare 50$ more and get a new disk drive. The OS upgrade isn't necessary; all you need is a little bang on the IDE drive to kill it. As the saying goes: Backup, backup, backup! Gilboa On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 13:38 -0700, Dave Stevens wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a gigi-byte Athlon that is now just too tired for what I want to do. I > plan to install my new asus main board and new cpu and ram. The old mobo has > a Riva TNT2 16 meg video card, the new one, an A7V400-MX has on-board video. > Both motherboards have NIC, audio built in. ADSL connection to the net. > > My inclination is to just bolt up the new parts sans disk until it works, then > attach a bootable IDE drive and see what develops. FC3 up to date. CRT > monitor, Adaptec controller and Seagate SCSI drive. > > I don't really have a decent backup solution (hds full of music and videos far > larger than DVD capacity), so what do people recommend? Should I expect > Fedora to become non-functional? > > Dave > > -- > Lake Pontchartrain - better living through chemistry?
