I meant: "In general, an upgrade, any upgrade, as long as you use complaint hardware..." and "The OS upgrade isn't necessarily the problem..." Me a bit drowsy... Gilboa On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 02:04 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: > 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? >
