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Hi,

I have now an Asus TX97-XE mobo with a pentium 233MMX and I am thinking of
upgrading my linux box to an Asus P2B-D or -DS with dual PII 350.
The linux is Red Hat 5.2.

Is it sufficient to just change the mobo, reboot and recompile the kernel, or
is there are any other steps?

Thanks!

In general all you should need to do is change, reboot, recompile.

The one caveat is:  if you're using hdparm to optimize your drive access,
disable that before installing the new board.  Some IDE controllers don't like
certain options of hdparm, and if you put it in your rc.local or other boot
script you could find yourself locked out of your system.

I recently moved my linux system (RH 5.1++ on a 5.0GB EIDE drive) from a
P5/166mmx on Asus P55tvp4 to a completely different PII/400 on Intel SE440BX.
New video, sound, NIC, everything.  All I really had to do was recompile the
kernel to support PII, new network, and new sound card, and reconfigure X to run
on the new video adapter.  Total time, probably under an hour.

Hope this helps,
Phil