New motherboard upgrade? Ideas?

bax · 03-01-2003, 12:35 AM

I just bought an Asus motherboard w/ P-III 1 gig chip for $60 (good deal, eh?) Now I'm thinking of replacing the AMD 400 mhz in my Debian Samba box w/ my new P-III. I don't think Linux will like changing out the motherboard and chip so i'm thinking I can preserve /etc and /home directories and just wipe /, right? Then I was planning to turn the AMD 400 mhz into a dedicated firewall running Redhat or OpenBSD. What's everybody think? What would YOU do?

MasterC · 03-01-2003, 12:39 AM

I'd swap in the Mobo/CPU and see if it does like it. Assuming you haven't compiled your own kernel, or you compiled a few extra things in as module, you can at least get to the point of starting up. Then, download a new kernel and update. Much easier than a complete re-install

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trickykid · 03-01-2003, 02:26 AM

Moved: More suitable in the Hardware forum.

bax · 03-02-2003, 02:08 PM

Wel,, I'm going to swap the motherboard/chip out today. If that doesn't work out, should I just wipe / and preserve /etc and home and reinstall Debian on /? I put a lot of work into my Samba setup and have my other box's backups on /home so I'm really trying to go the safe route

Tinkster · 03-02-2003, 02:41 PM

In general you can't compare Linux to
WinDOHs ... where a win-installation might
shoot itself in the foot over a new chipset
and different IDE controller, Linux in general
won't. The only difficulties you might face
would be a chipset that's so new your kernel
doesn't support it. But as you're looking at
a standard ASUS PIII board you should be
just fine with swapping the boards, really.

Cheers,
Tink

mcleodnine · 03-02-2003, 02:50 PM

Before you change over (yeah I know I'm probably too late on this) you should probably do a quick aduit of the following items;

current hardware
future hardware - i/o (drive controllers), video, CPU
current kernel - rebuild it to get the most generic kernel you can make

After that you can get out the screwdriver...

install the new hardware
rebuild the kernel on the new platform
examine packages you have built from source - if you've built source which was optimized for the previous CPU then you will need to rebuild it when you install the new hardware.