On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 06:04:54PM +0000, Mark Rogers wrote:
On 28 February 2013 21:58, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
I may need to update a machine's innards, so I'd like to know - did you basically just put the old hard drive on the new motherboard & case etc and it booted, just like that, without having to reinstall anything?
I can't comment on what Peter did, but generally speaking I've always found that a disk from a Linux PC will transfer to new hardware without issue. The biggest potential problem that I can think of would be a change to graphics hardware, but even then unless you have a customer X config it should just work itself out.
Yes, this has generally been my experience too. It always comes as a bit of a surprise when it works though!