Hello everyone,

I have slackware 11.0 on a old pentium III computer. I would
like to take out the hard drive and put it on another computer. Since both computers have different hardware
like video,sound, etc. When linux boots up on the new computer will it adjust itself to the new hardware automatically or will it be searching for the old hardware
settings I had when I installed linux. I know how to fix lilo and grub, and /etc/fstab. If anyone had tried this before, I would like to know if it worked or not.

I appreciate your feedback. Thanks

I have done this with both Debian Woody and Suse 9.1.
Change to a console/text runlevel instead of GUI.
When the system boots in the new computer, reconfigure hardware as needed from the terminal before starting the GUI.

thanks 2damncommon, I'll give it a try and run the command line tools for video, network and sound, etc. If I get any
error messages after reconfiguring , I'll just do a clean install.

Thanks again

Done it with about 80 distros and moved them acros 3 PCs.

Hey saikee, I appreciate your feedback. Did you encounter any problems like hardware issues, kernel panics or whatsoever?

No.

The big guns, like the Red Hat and Mandriva family, will detect the hardware changes and ask permission to have the old drivers removed and the newly found drviers to be accepted. Kind of making the user feel important.

I had at one time no display in about 40 of them because the new mobo has an onboard Video that I do not know what kind and the changeover obvious didn't match. I checked the one distro that did manage to display using "vesa" and so I edited the xorg.conf in the rest. They all fired up as clockwork. Mind you I use standard Reaktek network card and SoundBLaster sound card that every Linux can recognise. I believe one doesn't get the optimum performance out of the Linux by migrating the hard disk from machine to machine but it certainly poses no technical barrier like a XP would.

Thanks again saikee