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On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 09:53 +0100, Julian Hall wrote: > On 21/10/2010 08:31, John wrote: > > After a long, long wait I'm finally getting a new PC. From a single core > > athlon 2ghz to an intel quad core 4ghz super monster :] > > > > Anyway, how much chance is there of just taking the OS drive (intel ssd) > > out of this machine and slapping it into the other and expecting stuff > > to work? > > > > I am expecting to remove the current nvidia drivers off this first, and > > also comment out the swap from the fstab as its on another drive > > currently, oh and comment out the various other hard drives until I move > > them over later on (all using UUID's so "should" be painless. > > > > Anything else that might help make things go smoother ? > > > You're going from an AMD to an Intel.. I wouldn't expect too much in the > way of plain sailing. All the motherboard devices will be different to > start with, plus what's plugged into them. Linux will hopefully just > look at the changes, shrug and carry on, but I wouldn't count on it. Do > you have /home mounted separately to the rest of the system? /home is on its own partition, but on the same SSD as the OS, there are symlinks to things like music, video, data, picture folders to other larger conventional HD's, I don't foresee a problem with that really. I will backup /home to one of the other HD's, just a copy with the archive flag or something to preserve permisions, I did plan on doing that in the event that things do not go well when plugged into the new machine and I reinstall, I'd not format ~/ in that event but a backup makes sense. -- John http://subbass.blogspot.com/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq