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  From: Ant <fineales@ozemail.com.au>
  To  : Brian Marr <cabernet@ihug.com.au>
  Date: 15 Jul 2003 11:32:22 +0930

Re: Heart Transplant

On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 11:06, Brian Marr wrote:
> 
> 
> Is it possible to replace the Motherboard, Memory and Processor on a working
> PC, with newer (Atx) components, boot into rescue, recompile the kernel,
> then hopefully boot using your motherboard ?
> I am not sure about the finer details of compiling a kernel from rescue but
> feel sure this can be done. 
> I would be interested to hear from anyone who has done this.
> Brian Marr

Depending on the age of the install, it might even "just work"
[tm].Provided the IDE chipset is supported, at least in compatibility
mode it should at least boot.

Ant

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