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larand54
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 Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:39 pm Post subject: Pre-Upgrading hints |
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I'm preparing for an upgrade of my Gentoo-system and would like to gather som thoughts and hint's from experienced people.
I now have a system consisting of:
Motherboard: ASUS P4P800S with 1GB ram
CPU :
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz
stepping : 9
cpu MHz : 2665.428
cache size : 512 KB
Graphics card: ASUS V9650 - GEFORCE FX5600
All is working well but my son needs a new system and I will let him get my old while I take the new system 
The new system will consist of :
Motherboard: ASUS P5K PREMIUM/WIFI-AP, P35 (Chipset INTEL P35 incl ICH9)
CPU: Intel Core2Duo E6750
Graphic: ASUS GF8600GTS 256MB PCI-E Silent
I'll keep my old SATA-discs(MAXTOR 2*300GB 7200rpm 16Mb cache) and an IDE-disc 120GB MAXTOR.
Can you see any immediate problem with this? I'm not sure that it should be necessary to generate a new kernel for this, of course I need to do that to make the contained network to work but otherwise I can only see optimizational possibilities.
The graphical card should run with the already existing NVIDIA-driver I now use.
What more to think about?
I'm dare to say: It's only to remove the old MB and install the new MB, connect all cables, discs, dvd etc. etc. and then push the button  .
Hope you don't mind
Hopeful to get a bunch of tips. |
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twam
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Location: Ammerbuch, Germany
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I've got this mainboard and everything is working nicely, except for wifi i never tested.  |
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larand54
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| twam wrote: | | I've got this mainboard and everything is working nicely, except for wifi i never tested. |
Sounds nice! 
But come on all other HW-people! I want to here more - sure there must be more to say? Otherwise I'll be sure that there will be new threads from me after I start install the new hardware |
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Gentree
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Location: France, Old Europe
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Hi,
you should be able to build a kernel that will boot both mother boards. So do this before you unplug anything. Add all new modules and reboot on the existing hardware until you have all you think you need.
Obvioulsy back-up big time.
If you can organise a new partition for the new boot it will make you a lot less prone to error. Clone your entire root partition and establish this a new boot entry in grub. If things get messy you just boot back to your old system partition.
you may want to use a liveCD of some description to see what modules it pulls in , this can save some sifting and headscratching working out what new modules you'll need for the new mobo.
I have moved my gentoo from an ABIT AN7 to NF7 and it was pretty straightforward having prepared things in advance.
try googling the forums for your new mobo and see what issues have come up.
google this site:forums.gentoo.org
HTH
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