On Wednesday 23 March 2005 16:40, chris burnat wrote:
> It may be worth noting that the ability to move from one hardware set to
> another (ie changing m/b) is not "supported" by every linux distros. I
> have in the past tried this with Suse and Mandrakes, to no avail... But
> RH seems to cope admirably well, at least from version 7 onwards - a
> definite advantage.
I have run into problems doing this, even on similar hardware. I swapped a
drive from a Dell Dimension 3000 (P4 HT 800MHz FSB 865 chipset) to a
Dimension 4500S (P4 non-HT 400MHz FSB 845 chipset) with different NICs,
sound, etc. I had to disable rhgb to get kudzu to finish; kudzu running in
the text window in rhgb locked up; kudzu on a plain text console didn't.
This was CentOS 4, BTW, and I did it just four days ago.
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