Motherboard Change- will Fedora survive?

[fredex]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 10:31:22AM -0400, Ed Gurski wrote:
> Gary Waters wrote:
> 
> > Yes, this is a newbie question...sorry ;-)
> > 
> > I presently have an ECS K7S5A motherboard with an SIS-735 chipset. I'm
> > running an AMD XP2000+ CPU. I am considering upgrading to the ECS
> KT-600
> > Motherboard with a VIA KT600 Chipset:
> > 
> > http://www.ecsusa.com/products/af1lite.html
> > 
> > The Board does have SATA ports, which I will not be using. I will more
> > than likely upgrade to an XP2600+ or higher CPU.
> > 
> > My question is simple: will Fedora survive the transition and/or what
> > should I expect in terms of results?
> > 
> Just over 18 months ago, my main system was an old HP Pavilion (Pentium
> II). I had been running Linux on this for about 18 months. This system
> contained my DNS, NTP, Samba, Squid, etc... I think you get how
> important this server was!
> 
> When it died suddenly, I was faced with the task of building a new
> system. I went to my favorite PC hobby shop (PC Microcenter) and bought
> a bare bones system. To make a long story short, I had 3 bad power
> supplies, so the last time it was replaced, I had them load boot the
> system first. 
> 
> Well, the manager asked me what OS I was running. When I told him LInux,
> he smiled and called on of his Windoze bigots to watch the system boot.
> 
> system recognized that the hardware platform had changed (P II to P
> III), and proceeded to reconfigure itself and boot properly. The only
> minor problem I has was my swap space since I upgraded from 128 MB to
> 512 MB. I changed that and the system has been running smoothly ever
> since.
> 
> So, go ahead and change the hardware, Linux is not as dependent or
> stringent as Windoze....

This is true. And in the OP's case almost certainly a no-brainer, since
he's staying within the same CPU family.

But,...

I once tried to downgrade from a PIII to a K6-2. Can you say "disaster" ?

Fred

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