On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:46 +0200, Vincent Schut wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm going to get a new pc, replacing my now more than 5 years old pc. I >> would like to keep my current arch installation, and hope to prevent the >> need to do a full reinstall. I like the software I have, and I like the >> configuration I have... >> >> Could I just put my old harddisk (which is relatively new and still OK, >> I have SMART enabled) in the new pc and reboot? >> >> Both are amd 64 bit cpu's, the old one one of the first athlon 64's, the >> new one a Phenom II X6 1035T (and my current arch linux install is 64bit) >> >> Of course stuff like chipset, network chip, video etc. are all >> different. For video that would be no problem, I could install other >> (current = nvidia, new pc = ati) drivers from the text console. However, >> I'd like basic stuff and network to work :-) >> >> Could anyone give me an idea about the chance of luck for such an >> operation? Tips, hints? Or would you just advise a clean install and >> install and reconfigure all software again? > > Linux is not Windows, so you'll get away with it. You could put the > harddisk in your new system and boot the new system with the fallback > kernel option which includes an initramfs image with all drivers. You'll > probably have to reconfigure X then. > After booting the fallback kernel, it's advised to regenerate your > initramfs images using mkinitcpio, or by just reinstalling kernel26. > > My Archlinux installation survived multiple mainboards and harddisks, > it's years old by now. > > +1 Linux Kernel determines which drivers to use at boot. Unlike Windows which uses just the specified driver. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com
