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by **samir hobei** » Tue, 03 Jun 2003 00:16:21

hello
i buy an new motherboard and a new processor (athlon xp 2000+) for
remounting a complete pc with an new case... I would like to know , i
have an ide hdd with mandrake 9.1 inside with the modules of my old
motherboard and the old k6...
can i change the motherboard and the new processor and simply boot
with the same hdd with the same mandrake without format or reinstall
?? will mandrakes kudzu simply install new modules or do i need to
reinstall completely the system???
thank you
sam

by **Dances With Crow** » Tue, 03 Jun 2003 00:49:05

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On 1 Jun 2003 08:16:21 -0700, samir hobeica staggered into the Black Sun
and said:

Quote:> i buy an new motherboard and a new processor (athlon xp 2000+)
> have an ide hdd with mandrake 9.1 inside with the modules of my old
> motherboard and the old k6...
> can i change the motherboard and the new processor and simply boot
> with the same hdd with the same mandrake without format or reinstall

As long as you're using a stock distro kernel, it shouldn't be any
problem. If you compiled a custom kernel, that custom kernel will
probably still boot, but your disks will be slow since when you compiled
that custom kernel, you put in only the IDE chipset support that your
old motherboard needed. If you change your video card, you'll have to
reconfigure X. That's it.

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by **Leigh W3NL** » Tue, 03 Jun 2003 03:21:02

Quote:>hello
>i buy an new motherboard and a new processor (athlon xp 2000+) for
>remounting a complete pc with an new case... I would like to know , i
>have an ide hdd with mandrake 9.1 inside with the modules of my old
>motherboard and the old k6...
>can i change the motherboard and the new processor and simply boot
>with the same hdd with the same mandrake without format or reinstall
>?? will mandrakes kudzu simply install new modules or do i need to
>reinstall completely the system???
>thank you
>sam

I did this with an ASUS A7V8X mobo, 1 GB of RAM and an Athlon xp 2000+
and it worked fine. I'm running SuSE 8.2 pro.

Best,
Leigh Bassett
Software architect and embedded systems guru.
Registered Linux user #307936

by **ANT..** » Tue, 03 Jun 2003 08:02:38

> hello
> i buy an new motherboard and a new processor (athlon xp 2000+) for
> remounting a complete pc with an new case... I would like to know , i
> have an ide hdd with mandrake 9.1 inside with the modules of my old
> motherboard and the old k6...
> can i change the motherboard and the new processor and simply boot
> with the same hdd with the same mandrake without format or reinstall
> ?? will mandrakes kudzu simply install new modules or do i need to
> reinstall completely the system???
> thank you
> sam

I did it from ASUS P3B-F (Intel P3 CPU) to ASUS A7V333 (AMD Athlon XP).
It took a while. Booted into Linux with old Kernel and had problems, but
I was able to do stuff. I had to download Kernel 2.4.20 source and
compile. Did more tweaks and Red Hat Linux v7.2 is happy again. This was
a major upgrade that also included new RAM and new NVIDIA video card.

The hardest part was the getting my HDD performance and getting HDD
light not to be stuck forever. :)
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by **Ben** » Tue, 03 Jun 2003 08:10:09

> hello
> i buy an new motherboard and a new processor (athlon xp 2000+) for
> remounting a complete pc with an new case... I would like to know , i
> have an ide hdd with mandrake 9.1 inside with the modules of my old
> motherboard and the old k6...
> can i change the motherboard and the new processor and simply boot
> with the same hdd with the same mandrake without format or reinstall
> ?? will mandrakes kudzu simply install new modules or do i need to
> reinstall completely the system???
> thank you
> sam

I did this recently (P3 to Athlon) and ran into problems compiling a new
kernel. It was solved by deleting the source tree and re-extracting it
from the tarball.

-Ben

by **Robert Grizzar** » Tue, 03 Jun 2003 10:03:44

> I did this recently (P3 to Athlon) and ran into problems compiling a new
> kernel. It was solved by deleting the source tree and re-extracting it
> from the tarball.

That was a little pointless. "make mrproper" in the old source tree
would have done the same thing, as well as leaving your patches alone.
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by **scharkalvi** » Tue, 03 Jun 2003 11:26:28

>>hello
>>i buy an new motherboard and a new processor (athlon xp 2000+) for
>>remounting a complete pc with an new case... I would like to know , i
>>have an ide hdd with mandrake 9.1 inside with the modules of my old
>>motherboard and the old k6...
>>can i change the motherboard and the new processor and simply boot
>>with the same hdd with the same mandrake without format or reinstall
>>?? will mandrakes kudzu simply install new modules or do i need to
>>reinstall completely the system???
>>thank you
>>sam

> I did this with an ASUS A7V8X mobo, 1 GB of RAM and an Athlon xp 2000+
> and it worked fine. I'm running SuSE 8.2 pro.

> Best,
> Leigh Bassett
> Software architect and embedded systems guru.
> Registered Linux user #307936

I am using the a7V8X-X mb. Please not the documentiation
refers to the built in lan as being a Realtek 8201BL chip, but
it really is a Via-Rhine chip. At least that's the driver that worked.

by **Ben** » Tue, 03 Jun 2003 14:05:15

>>I did this recently (P3 to Athlon) and ran into problems compiling a new
>>kernel. It was solved by deleting the source tree and re-extracting it
>>from the tarball.

> That was a little pointless. "make mrproper" in the old source tree
> would have done the same thing, as well as leaving your patches alone.

I never claimed to be an expert. I will have to remember that.

-Ben

by **samir hobei** » Wed, 04 Jun 2003 01:12:18

so just recompile and its ok?

by **Duke Robillar** » Fri, 06 Jun 2003 02:49:44

> can i change the motherboard and the new processor and simply boot
> with the same hdd with the same mandrake without format or reinstall
> ?? will mandrakes kudzu simply install new modules or do i need to
> reinstall completely the system???

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. :-) I've had it go both ways.
It's worth a shot.

You're going up in the CPU, so that's good--if you had a 686
kernel and you changed to a 586 CPU (like one of the VIA's),
that would be not so good.

Duke

by **samir hobei** » Sat, 07 Jun 2003 02:32:01

everything is OK , the easiest way is to simply put the mandrake
(example) cd installation an upgrade the system wich is the same

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