Latem Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 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, Latem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 Don't do a clean install but rather an upgrade. This is in fact the only situation that an upgrade install is useful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latem Posted June 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 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. Latem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilcal Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 Hello, this is my current setup:............. .... Any other ideas, cautions, suggestions? Thanks, Latem <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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