PIII to PIV upgrade

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I have connected drives with either Mandrake or RedHat to numerous
different systems (i use it this way to save peoples data, etc) and they
almost always boot right up, detecting and configuring for the different
hardware on boot up. Occasionally the biggest pain will be for X to get
set for new video hardware but thats about it, once in a while sound,
especially that damn AC97 chipset that is so popular today.
I have heard that they have had problems with the PIV cpu's, don't know
first hand as I am an avid AMD fan :)
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 14:36, Justin Bennett wrote:
> I've decided to upgrade the OS when I do the HW, make it as clean as
> possible.
> 
> Robert Meyer said:
> > I can almost guarantee that you will have some issues.  Typically, the
> > system configures the onboard devices when it installs.  Mandrake and
> > RedHat both check for new hardware on the way up.  Mandrake runs
> > 'harddrake' and asks about anything that it sees as having changed.  I
> > have never tried it in RedHat so I can't tell what it will do.  You can
> > at least expect the system to ask about changing the config for anything
> > new it finds and deleting anything that it doesn't find that used to be
> > there. At worst, it will not boot properly, so YMMV (your milage may
> > vary).
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Bob
> > --- Justin Bennett <Justin.Bennett at dynabrade.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Anyone have any problems with PIII to PIV upgrades? I'm running Redhat
> >> 7.2 with kernel:
> >>
> >> Linux cheetah.dynabrade.com 2.4.18-17.7.xsmp #1 SMP Tue Oct 8 12:37:04
> >> EDT 2002
> >> i686 unknown
> >>
> >> The most up2date kernel from redhat. I want to swap the board from
> >> dual PIII 700s on a tyan tiger board to Dual 1.8 PIV Xeons on a
> >> supermicro board. If I just swap the board, RAM, CPUs, and powersupply
> >> (PIvs have their own of course). The kernel should boot ok on PIVs
> >> right? Has anyone tried?
> >>
> >> Justin
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> -------------------------------------------
> >> Justin Bennett
> >> Red Hat (Linux) Certified Engineer
> >> Network Administrator
> >> Dynabrade Inc.
> >> 8989 Sheridan Dr
> >> Clarence, NY 14031
> >> 716-631-0100 ext 215
> >>
> >>
> >
> > =====
> > Bob Meyer
> > Knightwing Communications, Inc.
> > 36 Cayuga Blvd
> > Depew, NY 14043
> > Phone: 716-308-8931 or 716-681-0076
> > Meyer_RM at Yahoo.com
> >
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> -------------------------------------------
> Justin Bennett
> Red Hat (Linux) Certified Engineer
> Network Administrator
> Dynabrade Inc.
> 8989 Sheridan Dr
> Clarence, NY 14031
> 716-631-0100 ext 215
>