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Re: [LUG] New PC

 

On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 14:17 +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
> Quoting Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> >  On 21/10/2010 08:31, John wrote:
> >> After a long, long wait I'm finally getting a new PC. From a single core
> >> athlon 2ghz to an intel quad core 4ghz super monster :]
> >>
> >> Anyway, how much chance is there of just taking the OS drive (intel ssd)
> >> out of this machine and slapping it into the other and expecting stuff
> >> to work?
> > &gt;
> >> I am expecting to remove the current nvidia drivers off this first, and
> >> also comment out the swap from the fstab as its on another drive
> >> currently, oh and comment out the various other hard drives until I move
> >> them over later on (all using UUID's so "should" be painless.
> >>
> >> Anything else that might help make things go smoother ?
> >>
> > You're going from an AMD to an Intel.. I wouldn't expect too much in  
> > the way of plain sailing.  All the motherboard devices will be  
> > different to start with, plus what's plugged into them.  Linux will  
> > hopefully just look at the changes, shrug and carry on, but I  
> > wouldn't count on it.  Do you have /home mounted separately to the  
> > rest of the system?
> >
> > Julian
> >
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> Speaking from recent experience should just work.  I upgraded my  
> server from a P4 to an AMD system the other day and it just worked.   
> Everything was detected and the machine carried on as normal.
> 

That is reassuring, fingers crossed I get as lucky. I am fairly hopeful.

-- 
John
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