Tim: >> I have pulled hard drives out of a box, and put them in another, and the >> system went through and sorted out what driver changes was needed almost >> by itself (I okayed a few things that kudzu wanted to do, but it made >> the choices about what to remove and install). Anything managed by HAL >> would be done by itself, each time a computer boots. Deepak Shrestha: > Thank you all for the information. I still have to buy the new > hardware. I will post if any problem occurs. > Thanks again. I can imagine a potential problem if there's a radical change in processors between old and new hardware, but installing a new kernel ought to resolve that. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.