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On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 14:17 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > Quoting Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > 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? > > > > Julian > > > > -- > > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq > > > > Speaking from recent experience should just work. I upgraded my > server from a P4 to an AMD system the other day and it just worked. > Everything was detected and the machine carried on as normal. New machine arrived, very, very impressed by it and also by Overclocker UK's sales/staff/quality/build. Basically then, I settled for taking a backup of ~/ and then commenting out the swap (on a different drive) and other drives/partitions mounted in fstab. Swapped the OS SSD into the new machine, held my breath and booted. First boot to desktop resulted in a locked up keyboard and non interactive desktop. Reset the machine, tried again and got a fully working desktop working very smoothly. However after a varying amount of time it would lockup again. Faced with trying to find the cause, or simply reinstall /boot and / I went for the latter, 20 mins later, back up and things went perfectly. As I checked out the restricted NVidia driver it seems the version 256.xx I was using before didn't have a clue what an NVIdia 460 card wan, it only supported 450, 465 and 470 from the 400 series. Its highly likely if I had either updated it before swapping the drives I would have had no issue at all, or had uninstalled the NVidia driver before the swap (which I very nearly did) End result is that if you are gonna do it, Linux seems to be near bombproof with a 100% hardware swap to its root install, and that you should be wary of the graphics driver when doing it, I was just really unlucky in the support of the driver, I was actually positive that 256.xx was the latest so never checked it :/ As for the machine itself, its incredibly. From the grub menu I would say much less than 10seconds to a fully loaded desktop (with all my applications installed again), application loading times... I remember those, haha ;) Gimp with extra plugins, many fonts, G'Mic pack.... 2 seconds to load. Open Office Writer, 1second or less. Chrome with around 10tabs.. under 1second. Thanks for those who gave advice, much appreciated. -- 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