hardware upgrade 2

[piti]

hi
i would like to make a complete hw upgrade on my linux box and want to do it as easy as possible
the only piece that remains is the harddrive
what do i have to change, which settings, ...
can you give me some tips how to do it painless - for me and for the op.system than i'm something like a newbie
thanx

 

[marsd]

One HD?
IDE:
Configure it as a master, following the jumper settings in your hw manual, and attach it to the primary hd controller.

If you have a scsi drive and controller, configure the lun,
configure bios to boot(if necessary) from the scsi device, and make sure of your termination.

You bios settings for pnp should be non pnp OS, there are several other bios settings that may get you into trouble, but this is good for now.

After this depending on your distribution you may have more
questions, but it is basically straightforward..
Either boot from the cdrom supplied with your distro and
do a new install, or boot from floppy and then mount the
cdrom and install.

 

[piti]

well i don't want to reinstall - it was a hard and long way to the current status
the main aspect of my question was how to change the drivers for motherboard resources, vga card, ... without the need of reinstalling my linux box

 

[marsd]

I don't quite understand:
Do you have an existing install you want to transfer or
a new install?

 

[piti]

i have my linux box running and want it to "transfer" to a new machine

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Well, basically you've got the kernel and also various loadable modules in a linux system. Invariably, the off-the-shelf kernels shipped with linux distros will run on just about anything. They are compiled in a conservative way and distribted with pre-compiled modules that satisfy the 'customisation' element in terms of hardware. So, you will find that if you just stick that drive into a new box the kernel side will be fine.

What you may have to do is change the /etc/modules.conf file to reflect the 'device drivers' that are loaded for your different hardware. These are in the form of 'alias devicename modulename'. If you have a recent redhat you can run the hardware-wizard 'kudzu' which may well do lots of the work for you. Also on redhat you can do 'usr/sbin/setup' to run various config tools manually.

On the X side, you probably need to run 'Xconfigurator' (redhat) or equivalent for your distro to amend the video card, monitor, etc.

I don't imagine that it would cause too much of a problem unless you have some 'bleeding-edge' technology that linux has no drivers for. For a more specific answer you need to give some details of your distro and your old and new hardware.

Hope this helps..

 

[piti]

first - thanx all for posting

now to describe my computers
mandrake 8.0
kernel 2.4.3

old hw -
mb - don't know exactly what type, but it has vx pro chipset
proc - iPentium 133
vga - s3
netcard - 3com 3c59x family

new -
mb - QDI KuDoz 7 via kt266 chipset
proc - amd athlon
vga - matrox g450
netcard - 3com - 3c905c tx

do you think a guy like me, who is not a linux guru can make the settings without spending weeks for it?
btw: i found every program you described above allready installed, that makes me somehow happy

 

[marsd]

You may have some birthing pains with your
nic->once it is detected change the line that read eth0 in /etc/modules.conf or run netcfg
again.
The mb and processor are okay.
As Ifincham said you will need to redo X.

 

[piti]

thanx guys