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My respect for Linux has just gone way up

R

Rainsford

Lifer
So I had this Celeron 366 Mandrake 8.2 Linux computer I was using as a server for some personal test stuff and webpages for a few friends. I got the computer for free from my work, and needless to say it had some issues. Every once in a while it would just die, and while this wasn't the end of the world, it was very annoying. So I decided to switch to this KT133A board I had and a Duron 750. I had just downloaded Mandrake 9.0 so I figured now was a good time to upgrade the system anyways. Well apparently there was something wrong with ISOs I had downloaded (I got them from "some guy", not an official mirror) because it had some errors reading the CD. In any case, it was late and I didn't want to wait for new ISOs to download. So I thought, what the heck, let's see what happens if I boot off of the "old" installation. I wasn't really expecting it to work since I've had problems with Windows doing a similar thing. Needless to say, after a few minutes with Mandrake's hardware detection wizard, I was up and running with the same installation, no problems at all. While I'm sure it's far from the best way to do things, the fact is that it's up and running until I can download some workings ISOs for Mandrake 9.0 and do a reinstallation. Just thought I'd share my appreciation of Linux, finally being more user friendly than Windows 🙂
 
You don't need to do a reinstall with linux like you do with windows when you change motherboards 🙂 Its just how it is.
 
Originally posted by: Derango
You don't need to do a reinstall with linux like you do with windows when you change motherboards 🙂 Its just how it is.
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Unless you compile a kernel specific to the hardware in your machine 😉
 
Originally posted by: Vortex
Originally posted by: Derango
You don't need to do a reinstall with linux like you do with windows when you change motherboards 🙂 Its just how it is.
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Unless you compile a kernel specific to the hardware in your machine 😉
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And even then, all you have to do is compile another kernel that supports the new motherboard. I have done so before with much success.
 
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