On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 14:35 -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 11:24 -0700, bruce wrote: > > > We've got a few older 800/900MHz Compaq DL360 1U servers, and we're looking > > at replacing/upgrading the motherboard/mem with something along the lines of > > the 1.8/2.6GHz boards.. Has anyone any experience doing this.. Any pointers, > > etc... > > If you mean pulling the motherboard and replacing it while leaving the > harddrive, yes. The caveat is that you will need to keep the same > processor type or you will need to install the kernel for the processor > you are moving to. In general if you stay in the same family this > should be very painless. > > I swapped harddrives in a couple of systems and was very surprised that > the system recognized the changed hardware, USB chip set, network chip > set, etc. and came up on the new motherboard just fine. > > As always make backups first just in case. Right. Once I did this and had no problem. Verify the master/slave/IDE0/IDE1 same order on your disks in your new setup (swapping disks didnt work 4 me). Ethernet cards needed also reconfiguration, I had 2. Good Luck! -- Rodolfo Alcazar - rodolfo.alcazar@xxxxxxxxxxxx Netzmanager Padep, GTZ 591-70656800, -22417628, LA PAZ, BOLIVIA http://otbits.blogspot.com -- A system software crash will cause hardware to act strangely and the programmers will blame the customer engineer.
