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If i take my Linux Hard drive out of one system and plug it into another system with a faster cpu and more ram will Linux See the new hardware and make the necessary changes and use the correct drivers?
I have Linux on a 1 gighrz athlon, 384 mb ram, Geforce 2, 30 gig hd and i want to put it into
a 1.8 gighrz P4, 512mb rambus, Geforce 3, and 40 gig hd. Thanks.
Oh yea i also have a 4 port router and DSL, that might complicate things.
straight mobo swaps are normally a lot lot easier on linux than on windows, as a stock kernel will already have all required drivers. it should pick it up no problem. higher up issues like soundcards ususally require more work though.
That's what he means. He's saying that as far as the hardware in the newer computer goes, things like soundcards will be the only trouble you should hit.
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