[clue-tech] upgrade question

[Frank Whiteley]

W2K will probably be your bigger problem.  Even with newer hardware
upgrades, W2K drive shifts are problematic and often require re-installation
after saving your information.  I suppose it depends how much your time is
worth.

Frank Whiteley
Greeley

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier" <xonker at gmail.com>
To: "clue tech" <clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us>
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 10:33
Subject: Re: [clue-tech] upgrade question


> On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 05:58:16 -0700, Charles Oriez <coriez at oriez.org>
wrote:
> > I have a P1 that is running Suse 9.0 and Win2k dual boot.  I'm tired of
the
> > lack of speed and memory, but don't want to reinstall the existing aps
or
> > risk losing data.
> >
> > If I buy a P4 sans hard drives and just slap in my two existing physical
> > hard drives, will the system be smart enough to pick up on the hardware
> > changes during the boot process, or am I risking some unsuspected system
chaos?
>
> SUSE will probably pick up most changes, though you'll probably need
> to reconfigure X, sound, etc.
>
> W2K may be more problematic, though I can't speak from experience.
> Back when I used Win98, I tried something like that, and I remember it
> being a royal pain. I think I eventually decided it'd be easier to
> re-install Windows.
>
> Best,
>
> Zonker
>
> -- 
> Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier
> xonker at gmail.com
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