Re: Upgrade Suggestions

[Devon <devon tuxfan homeip net>]

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On Friday 28 September 2001 11:42 am, James Pifer wrote:
> I'm looking for some suggestions and recommendations on the following
> upgrade. I have Redhat 7.0 running on an old Dell Optiplex Pentium
> 150 with 64 Meg of RAM. I'm looking to buy replacement hardware, AMD
> Duron 750, with 256 Meg RAM, but no hard drive. I'd like to move the
> hard drive into the new hardware, so pretty much everything is going
> to change,
> motherboard/processor, NIC, and video.
>
> Is it likely that the system will not even start? It's only running
> text based on startup, no gui, so I figure that will help. Can anyone
> suggest how to handle this upgrade? I'd also like to upgrade it to
> 7.1, but I figured I'd do an upgrade once the system was up and
> running on the new hardware.

I've taken disks out of functional machines, installed them in another 
machine and booted without difficulty. As you noted above, trying to 
boot directly into X would be a problem if the video cards were 
different, but otherwise, it should work fine.

This is a method people have used to get around the memory limits of 
the installer as well. Install on one machine, then install the disk 
into the 'memory challenged' machine.

- -D

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