Upgrading to new pc with Slack

linuxhippy · 07-08-2006, 12:51 PM

I'm about to buy a tower pc and want to swap my IDE Slack 10.2 drive out of my old pc with the IDE Promise RAID card it's attached to that makes it hde. I'm hoping I won't have to reinstall Slack by doing this. Any tips?

drkstr · 07-08-2006, 01:02 PM

Just make sure all of your hardware is set to auto detect and that you have kernel support hard codded in for the file system and disk setup (RAID, regular IDE, SCSI, etc..).

regards,
...aaron

linuxhippy · 07-08-2006, 01:04 PM

All harware is plug n play and both pcs are Pentium so the kernel should be good. Filesystem used is Reiser and ext3.

drkstr · 07-08-2006, 01:14 PM

I don't think you will have any problems unless you configured your Slack to be specific to your current machine. The standard install is pretty generic and will transfer over to other machines nicely.

regards,
...aaron

linuxhippy · 07-08-2006, 01:22 PM

I have 4 kernels to boot-2 I built to be less generic and I'm hoping will boot any Pentium pc with little hardware support and then I have 2 generic kernels that I could use also. Hopefully it'll transfer with no problems!