Moving HD from boxen A to boxen B

[M. Lewis]

I'm trying to help a friend (remotely) move a working FC4 installation 
to a new boxen due to memory limitations on the old machine. My friends 
computer knowledge is practically nil. He does follow instructions 
rather well, otherwise I wouldn't attempt this.

I know when we move it and bring it up (after of course configuring the 
BIOS) we will encounter some challenges.

Primarily, numerous warnings from Kudzu about NICs, video card, maybe 
motherboard, etc.

Questions:

1) is it better to tell Kudzu to forget the old configurations and use 
the new configurations? I would like a path to get back to the old 
machine should the move to the new machine prove to be too much of a 
challenge for him.

2) assuming X does not work due to the new video card, how is the best 
way to overcome this?

3) anything else that I might be overlooking ?


Thanks,
Mike


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