Subj : Re: Motherboard change?
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Wally
Date : Mon Aug 09 2004 03:43 pm

Scott" <"valindar/\\at/\\ionide/\\dot/\\org wrote:

> If you don't know how to do this, go to /usr/src/linux (the kernel
> source directory, presuming it's installed and symlinked in that
> directory, otherwise /usr/src/linux-*version*), ...

Unfortunately, the disk is already out of the server box - his Windows
desktop failed and the Linux server was faster than the spare box, so that
got turned into the desktop machine and the slower spare box is intended to
act as a server. That said, I'm pretty sure that no source code was
installed (nor was the compiler). At present, it would probably be easier to
give the server its own hardware back and use the slower box for the Windows
desktop (at least until a possible need to add a compiler and kernel source
to the Linux disk can be addressed, but I'm not sure that he'd be keen on
getting into compiling).


> Look for anything cpu specific and make sure you've got the right
> things selected for the new cpu, if you have to make changes then
> you'll need to recompile your kernel.

The kernel wasn't (overtly) compiled during the install (does it do it in
the background?). Would it be a fair bet that Mandrake uses a standard(ish)
kernel, selected from a range of likely candidates?

Am I right in thinking that the kernel/CPU stuff has more to do with
optimisations? If so, would a generic(?) kernel still function okay with a
CPU/m'board change? His Linux box is used as a basic server -
firewall/router, file and print server.



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