[NBLUG/talk] Finding an compatible IDE motherboard

Lincoln Peters sampln at sbcglobal.net
Fri Nov 10 19:44:10 PST 2006


On Friday 10 November 2006 19:11, Todd Cary wrote:
> Greatly appreciate your interest/question.  I have Centos 4 running on
> an old box; not sure of the motherboard or CPU.  But when I went to
> upgrade my Red Hat 9 to Centos 4 or Fedora 5 (I believe it was 5) or the
> Linux on a CD (Ubuntu), none will install.
>
> Now it may be due to my lack of understanding about upgrading drivers
> that I can't upgrade.  My main goal is to have Centos 4 on the computer
> due to the great performance on the other box (I have not had to touch
> it :-) ) and to have them both as close as possible since they are
> suppose to be "backups" to each other.

If the new distro doesn't support the board, it's more likely that the drivers 
were left out to save space.  But the drivers should still be present in the 
Linux kernel sources, so one option might be to build a custom kernel 
(containing the necessary drivers) that you can use both for the install and 
first boot, i.e. until you get the custom kernel installed on the hard disk.

This should work in principle, but I've never tried it myself.


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Lincoln Peters		<sampln at sbcglobal.net>

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