[solved]System Upgrade

Gauvenator · 2008-06-23 22:06:51

I'm putting in a new motherboard so I need to reinstall arch right? I have a bunch of stuff installed and configured, so is there a way to somehow easily save all the progress I have made? I would like at least a list of the applications I installed, and some of their settings if possible.

Last edited by Gauvenator (2008-06-27 15:17:17)

Zepp · 2008-06-23 22:15:40

No you do not need to reinstall. If you compiled your own kernel you would need to make sure there is support for the different chipsets, but that is about it. If you are using the standard kernel package I am pretty sure the modules should all be there. Anyway long story short a motherboard change does not require a reinstall in linux .

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lucke · 2008-06-23 22:18:13

You don't need to reinstall anything, unless you've compiled packages with custom CFLAGS with march different that i686 and you're inserting a CPU from a different family. You probably should boot with kernel26-fallback.img and rebuild kernel26.img using mkinitcpio after boot. You might have to load different modules if you're not using module autoloading in rc.conf.

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Gauvenator · 2008-06-23 23:39:23

Phew, that's a relief. Yet another advantage of Linux over Windows.

Misfit138 · 2008-06-23 23:42:51

This is why I always rant about the advantages of modular kernels.
Plug and play (for the most part).

Gauvenator · 2008-06-24 00:27:53

I'll also be using a newer processor, but it's also by intel, just 45nm instead 65nm. I'll be getting an e7200, upgrading from an e6320.

lucke wrote:

You don't need to reinstall anything, unless you've compiled packages with custom CFLAGS with march different that i686 and you're inserting a CPU from a different family. You probably should boot with kernel26-fallback.img and rebuild kernel26.img using mkinitcpio after boot. You might have to load different modules if you're not using module autoloading in rc.conf.

I do have mod autoload enabled, and I'm pretty sure I'm using the stock kernel. Is there anything special I need to do with mkinitcpio or just:

# mkinitcpio

Oh and will I need to uninstall the nvidia driver before running that?

Misfit138 · 2008-06-24 01:31:06

if you are using the same video card, you shouldn't need to.

Gauvenator · 2008-06-24 01:47:04

Misfit138 wrote:

if you are using the same video card, you shouldn't need to.

Thx

I'm glad it turned out this way..I wasn't looking forward to reinstalling and redoing all my settings for each program.

But again, about mkinitcpio, do I just run this?

# mkinitcpio

Misfit138 · 2008-06-24 03:02:41

You want to rebuild your initramfs image?

# mkinitcpio -p kernel26

^Will rebuild the default. (-p for preset)

# mkinitcpio -g /boot/kernel26.img

^ if you have fiddled around and have a custom mkinitcpio.conf

more info here

Gauvenator · 2008-06-27 15:15:10

Misfit138 wrote:

You want to rebuild your initramfs image?
# mkinitcpio -p kernel26
^Will rebuild the default. (-p for preset)
# mkinitcpio -g /boot/kernel26.img
^ if you have fiddled around and have a custom mkinitcpio.conf
more info here

Awesome thanks, just ran it and it went fine.

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