Re: New Motherboard Install

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On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 07:09 -0700, Randy Wyatt wrote:
> On 6/30/06, Don Maxwell <don.maxwell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It appears that my current motherboard is flaking out on me.  It is 6
> > yrs old so I got my money's worth out of it for sure!
> >
> > What is the prevailing thought on replacing a MB in an existing system?
> >
> > I really want to preserve what I can in terms of applications and
> > configurations.  Obviously, all the I/O will be different. Video,
> > audio, and  LAN concerns do give me pause.
> >
> > The PC has two hard disks:  One 30 GB where most everything resides
> > and one 80GB which is my /home partition.
> >
> > The options seem to be:
> > 1) Pop the new MB in and hope that Kudzu figures everything out
> > 2) Reinstall FC5 over my existing setup
> > 3) Blow away everything on my 30 GB disk and start mostly from
> > scratch, using my various backed up .conf files?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >    --Don
> >
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> 
> Will you be changing  the CPU?  and do you use the generic kernel as
> provided by redhat?
> I have brought up redhat after a moterboard and CPU change just fine.
> It only required a little modification.  You will have to reconfigure
> X after the system comes up  so you may want to make sure that you
> boot into runlevel 3.
> 
Hi

I have done this very thing this week.
New MB with the same CPU, memory and disk.
FC5 sorted everything out on the first boot.
I did use the same Graphics card though.
Magic

John

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