[NCLUG] Preparing to upgrade motherboard, questions

[Dan Fink]

Hi all. Looks like a new motherboard is in my near future, and I'm 
curious to hear if anyone can tell this Linux newbie what to expect with 
the Linux side of my system when I upgrade. I will of course back 
everything up first, but I'd rather not have to do a complete restore of 
all my software and data, email, etc.

SO, anything I should be aware of? Any particular system or BIOS 
settings to write down? Any changes that will have to be made to config 
files and such? A good place to find system drivers (if I need them)? 
And......will it boot after the upgrade? ;~) I've researched the upgrade 
on the 'net but most of the info I've found was windows-specific.

Current system:
Celeron 800mHz, PC100 bus speed for RAM, built-in video and audio chips, 
KRUD 7.3

New system:
Athlon XP 2gHz, DDR 333 RAM, AVI video card, external sound card



As for my windows boot HDD, I don't keep anything important on it -- 
games and studio sound recording software. So I'll just format c: and 
reinstall a newer version of windoze from scratch....my windoze OS came 
with the machine and seems to only work on that machine. Plus it's 
WinME, which I have grown to hate.


Thanks in advance from a Linux newbie (who will never switch back to 
windows!)

Dan