Re: Hardware upgrade & FC3?

[Satish Balay <balay fastmail fm>]

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Arangel Angov wrote:

> I have FC3 installed at the moment on a lucky star KT100 motherboard,
> with 512SD RAM and AMD Athlon 1.4GHz proccessor. I just got a good deal
> on a brand new Soltek motherboard, 512 DDR RAM and AMD Athlon 2.4GHz
> processor. My question is, how will fedora handle this hardware upgrade,
> first of all will it boot? The HDD an all other other hardware will
> remain as they are.
> 
> I just don't want to try it before I ask someone.. don't want to do a
> new install if not nessecary.

Generally - it does boot and redetect hardware (and kudzu attempts to
reconfigure stuff). So things should work. Make sure you have the
latest rhgb update installed.

I've swapped hdds between a thinkpad 600E and T40 successfully..

Satish