Re: Upgrade - What to expect?

["Aaron M. Theriault" <aaron chatnet com>]

I am also running the 300A is there a differance in preformance when the kernel
is compiled for a pII vers Pro??????
Juha Saarinen wrote:

> A couple of days ago I upgraded my K6-166 system with an ASUS TX430
> motherboard to an 300MHz Celery running in an ASUS P2L-B board... shifted
> over the SDRAM DIMMs, the EIDE HD but put a new video card in.
>
> Linux (RH 5.2) booted up fine, even though I had previously recompiled the
> kernel with Pentium optimisations -- I recompiled the kernel with Pentium
> Pro optimisations and the system's fast and stable. Get much better hd
> performance with the new system (not sure why that would be) and the lack of
> L2 cache in the Celery doesn't seem to matter that much.
>
> -- Juha
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Butler [mailto:mgb nbnet nb ca]
> > Sent: Sunday, 24 January 1999 08:23
> > To: redhat-list redhat com
> > Subject: Upgrade - What to expect?
> >
> >
> > Hello All,
> > My PC's motherboard died this week. I had an AMD
> > 5x86. After attempting to find a motherboard to
> > work with my cpu, I finally gave up and decided to
> > upgrade to a celeron 300 with a 4mb S3 video card
> > and 64 meg of ram. My question is what should I
> > expect when I fire up Linux for the first time
> > with this new hardware. I know I'll have to
> > reconfigure X to work with the video card, but am
> > I in for any surprises? I imagine a kernel
> > recompile will be called for, but will Linux choke
> > when starting back up?
> >
> > I'm running RedHat 5.0, BTW.
> >
> > Thanks for any pointers
> >
> > Mike
> >
>
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