Martin J Hooper <martinjh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> I've got a few really old systems (ppro-150 and p-II) that are >> resistant to any simple installs too. This systems are too >> old to boot from CD, DVD or usb. I found that ripping the >> hard disk out and putting it in a more modern system is the >> easiest way to install Fedora on it. (In fact I'm watching >> the install of F7 on the P-II's disk finish as I type this.) > > Just curious - Wouldn't you have hardware detection problems ie > installing newer hardware drivers that are not on the older computer? Maybe I just got lucky, but it worked really well under FC6 for both target systems. The only strangeness I noticed was that the network config file got auto-rebuilt because the MAC address changed. I may have touched up the xorg file by hand too, (via running "X -configure"), and merging the new bits into the fedora-created file. I haven't put the newly built F7 drive back into the old system, so I can't report any success on that front yet. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ Hints for IPv6 on FC6 http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/fedora/ipv6-tunnel.html
