quite a robust OS

[Dejan Nikic]

Well if i was in your place, before the upgrade I'd make another kernel
bzImage built just for the new machine and then have it as another
option in Lilo/Grub, so that when you transfered the drive to another
machine, you had a kernel already built for that machine, so the only
thing you would need to do is select that new kernel.  After that it's
just a matter of upgrading packages.

On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 20:03, Adam Monsen wrote:
> Just thought I'd share a funny story about my lack of hardware knowledge 
> and how Linux made up for my mistakes.
> 
> I decided to upgrade my parents' computer for them. Here are the basic 
> specs of the system:
> 
> Red Hat GNU/Linux 7.3
> Pentium II 266
> 2.5G HD
> 
> I purchased a new AMD Athlon 950Mhz box: a motherboard, 350W power 
> supply, floppy drive, and some kind of onboard sound and video. I 
> thought the easiest way to do the upgrade was simply to transfer the 
> 2.5G HD from the old Pentium box to the new Athlon box, so that's what I 
> did.
> 
> On boot, Red Hat detected every hardware change: sound, video, USB, etc. 
> and configured itself without fail! I had basically swapped a Pentium 
> proc with an Athlon (pop quiz: how is this possible?).
> 
> I was on a roll, and turned to upgrading Red Hat to 8.0. 20% through the 
> upgrade (NOT a fresh install), the screen went blank and the computer 
> didn't respond to mouse or keyboard input. Dang power management!
> 
> Oh well. I rebooted anyway, and I actually ended up at a command line 
> with a partially working Red Hat 8.0! With internet connectivity I was 
> able to back up the /home partition (something I'll certainly do 
> /before/ the upgrade next time) and start a fresh install.
> 
> Try that with Windows! :)
> 
> -- 
> Adam Monsen
>