Hi, i want to know correct procedure for moving a FC4 install on two hard drives to a new box.

Current box is having power issues and possibly mainboard problems and I just want to swap to completely new machine.
if i do this, will it auto detect and config all hardware on the new system?

Thanks

If the new machine is the same hardware as the one that is failing, you shouldn't encounter any issues. However, the first thing I would do before the transfer would be to backup any configs and data just in case.

-twantrd

Thanks man. Just wanted to see if it would be the same kind of thing as for a windows box. H/ware is different, but will backup and give it a go...

I'd agree with twantrd -- as long as the disks are reinstalled in the same positions as they now (eg, the primary master remains the primary master, the secondary slave remains the secondary slave, etc) then you shouldn't have any trouble. Make backups just to play it safe

Note that if you are using onboard devices on the new mobo that use a different chipset than your current mobo, it's possible that you many need to manually load a couple of different drivers. I wouldn't worry about it though; most distros have very good support for the most common chipsets, and you can cross that bridge if or when you get to it. I'd say give it a shot and more likely than not you'll be cruising

Thanks J.W--I have heard and seen from many people that FC has great support for most common boards/components. The box i'm moving it to is basically a mid range HP box so i'm hoping it should be fine.

Well thanks but twantrd beat me to the punch. Typically, most distros these days offer pretty solid HW support, but sometimes the onboard devices may need a bit of tweaking

Okay--so the move went really well--except for networking.

I can see the new card as eth0 and it is doing DHCPDISCOVER but not getting anything. Strange thing is, the error it gives when I try and ifconfig eth0 up or dhclient is that NO DHCP OFFER received-sleeping and also if I try to activate it through the network gui it gives this error:

192.168.x.x PING 3 packets 3 failed 100% failed pipe 4
The weird thing is, 192.168.x.x is the IP of my router/gateway and not my dhcp server which is a windows box. before i moved the drives, DHCP was working fine.

I thought that maybe it was the dhcp server so i cleared out the old lease records(obviosuly it had bound to the MAC of the old card) but that didn't do anything.

So no network but everything else seems fine. I know that this should be moved to the networking forum but not sure how I can do that....