Upgrading hardware - your thaughts.

[Stubbs]

I've just upgraded my games machine to a Duron 700, and I'm going to turn the guts of the old one into my Linux box.

Currently the Linux box is something like a P200, and the new chip is a Celery 400. I was planning on just swapping the mobo over, the rest of the HW will be the same as is currently, bar the graphics card.

What problems can I expect to run into doing this? Can I expect the Dance of a Thousand Veils (or reboots) that windows does when you change the Mobo?

Or would I be better just taking a backup of my data and doing a clean install?

[nathaniel]

backup and reinstall. with anything that effects the area that the windows/unix is set on will always cry when u change something. safest route it to backup then format.

NB

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[vvx]

Probably -- you can get away with just booting of a linux boot disk and rerunning lilo. Linux doesn't really have as much problem as windows, if it doesn't work so smoothly a reinstall might be one of your considerations but I say try without first. If you have any modules that were given irq's 'n so forth in order to function (and they're PCI) those might change, but I don't think you're going to even see that.

[Stubbs]

hehe, two replies, two different answers :-)

I think I'll re-install, there's so much crap I've installed and not used, that a clean install wouldn't do any harm.