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hgerstung
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 Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 9:04 pm Post subject: Change Motherboard and CPU ... how? |
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Hi!
I would like to give up using Windows at all and switch over to Gentoo completely. At the moment I have my Gentoo Machine (running as a server but it is also used for mails and web browsing )AND a Windows PC used for things I cannot do with Gentoo (a nice and stable video cutter software is still missing).
As the WinPC is a P4-2,8Ghz and my Gentoo box is an Athlon XP 2800, I would like to change that and use the P4 for my Gentoo system.
Everything is compiled for the athlon-xp and I wonder if there is any chance to rebuild the system to be usable with a P4. A re-install would be a pity, because I'm pretty happy with my Gentoo installation ...
Any hints? A HowTo somewhere? Thanks for your help!
Kind regards,
Heiko |
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koara
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Joined: 30 Jun 2004
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Location: Portland, Maine
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| Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 9:57 pm Post subject: Re: Change Motherboard and CPU ... how? |
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I went from an Athlon XP to a dual PIII setup and did not have any problems. The only thing I did in advance was compile a kernel for the new hardware. Once the new hardware was in place I booted from the new kernel and it worked. Remember to change your CFLAGS and CHOST settings in /etc/make.conf after you are using the new hardware.
| hgerstung wrote: | Hi!
I would like to give up using Windows at all and switch over to Gentoo completely. At the moment I have my Gentoo Machine (running as a server but it is also used for mails and web browsing )AND a Windows PC used for things I cannot do with Gentoo (a nice and stable video cutter software is still missing).
As the WinPC is a P4-2,8Ghz and my Gentoo box is an Athlon XP 2800, I would like to change that and use the P4 for my Gentoo system.
Everything is compiled for the athlon-xp and I wonder if there is any chance to rebuild the system to be usable with a P4. A re-install would be a pity, because I'm pretty happy with my Gentoo installation ...
Any hints? A HowTo somewhere? Thanks for your help!
Kind regards,
Heiko |
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Zepp
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Location: Ontario, Canada
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update the cflags/chost for the new cpu, configure a new kernel, you may also want to recompile every package so they are optomized for the new cpu
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emerge -e system
emerge -e world
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