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Hello, this is my current setup:

 

CPU: P3-1GHz

Motherboard: Chaintech CT-60JV2

Video Card: ATI Radeon 32MB AGP DDR

RAM: 256MB

Hard Drive: Samsung 40GB

Sound Card: SoundBlaster 256 Live! Value

Monitor: Viewsonic Q71B 17IN

Floppy Drive: 1.44M Drive

DVD: Raide 8X DVD

CD-Writer: Sony 52x32x52 CDRW

Mouse: Microsoft IntelliPoint Optical Scroll Mouse

Speakers: 2-piece ZoltriXound ZX-MPro w/ 300W Sub-Woofer

Modem: Conectant SoftKey 56K v.90 PCI Fax Modem

Network Card: RealTek 10/100 PCI Ethernet

Operating System: Mandriva Limited Edition 2005

 

 

I am thinking of getting this:

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/Sea...&Tab=0&NoMapp=0

 

I'll also get another hard drive. I am planning on putting in my current DVD, CDRW, network card, and sound card. I am not sure whether I should continue using the Radoen video card, or the onboard video? What do you suggest?

 

Mainly I am wandering if the installed Mandriva will be able to handle the HW changes, or should I pretty much expect that I'll have to do a clean install? I had never done any sort of hardware change (except for Monitor) under Linux, so I am not sure what to expect, and if maybe there's something I should look out for? Doing a clean reinstall isnt that big of a deal I guess, but it is an inconveniance. Especially since I have a few things installed from source, and some other cusotmizations. Plus I always do urpmi --auto-select after a new install or update, and that can take up to 12 hours on my slow connection.

 

Any other ideas, cautions, suggestions?

 

Thanks,

 

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Don't do a clean install but rather an upgrade. This is in fact the only situation that an upgrade install is useful!

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I second the upgrade install but be sure to put your hard drive in the same ide slot so its designation(/dev/hd*) doesn't change. The upgrade install does not rewrite the boot loader config file so the drive has to be in the same place on the ide bus to boot after an upgrade install.

 

By the way, I've never thought much of tiger direct re price or service. Shop around a bit at ZipZoomFly or NewEgg. I'm pretty sure at least ZipZoomfly ships to canada and they're pretty reputable. I've also heard good things about buy.com but never used them. They do ship internationally. Also, check your local canadian retailers on line; shipping and customs can kill a good price from the States.

Also, try posting your prospective purchase on a hardware site like:

 

http://forum.pcmech.com/

 

These guys are real hardware junkies and will be able to point you to places where you can get better deals or at least intelligently comment on what kind of deal you are getting.

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Ok thanks for the feedback. Just wandering would it work without doing any kind of install at all. Will mandriva be able to pick up the changes ok all on it's own? I mean let's say I rebuild the system with some new parts (mainly just the mobo, cpu, and ram), and I turn it back on. Is it possible that it reconfigures everything correctly all on its own?

 

With regards to tigerdirect, yea upon reading around different forums, I haven't heard much good about them. For example that perticular 2900+ cpu is fishy, cuz I guess its some special OEM thing. I can't find it anywhere on AMD's website. I'll look around some more on some other places. Thanks for the suggested links. I am not in any real rush to upgrade this comp yet, just investigating things until I make up all the details of what I want to do.

 

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I've done it w/o any kind of install/upgrade just to see what linux would do, but when weird things begin to happen you wonder....what if

so you do an upgrade and the weird things go away. hmmmm

 

that's why they recommend Upgrade

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Hello, this is my current setup:..........

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Any other ideas, cautions, suggestions?

 

Thanks,

 

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Yes, may I suggest the following as this is what I have

done in the past and am doing now as I upgrade my

computer platform(s). Instead of mounting the hard drives

permanently into the machine I put them in a

rack mount and trays. The present setup uses racks and

trays from Kingwin and they are SATA drive(s).

 

This set up allows me to try this and try that

by simply shutting down the system, changing out

the drive for another, and starting all over. This

without blowing away all the work you've done.

 

I have brought up my new computer on Knoppix,

Ubuntu, Fedora and Mandriva. Plus, horrors, I have a

fully functional drive and tray with Windows XP SP2

Home Edition. You can kinda kick around Distros to

your hearts content till you find the one that works

best for you and your hardware.

 

The first bootable device on my machine is the

floppy, then the CD/DVD drive then the HD(s).

A bootable Win98 Floppy with the Ultimate CD Live CD

can do wonders for your confidence in your hardware

platform. Hey, if this or that install doesn't work

give it the boot, literally. Erase the hard drive

and reload again with something else.

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