From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_MISSING, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from mail.themonsens.org (unknown [166.70.187.234]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C153AC586; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 11:31:36 -0500 (CDT) Received: from PLATO (plato.themonsens.org [192.168.1.20]) by mail.themonsens.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 290E2E1B32; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:28:04 -0600 (MDT) From: Michael Monsen To: gregg@sc.am Cc: , Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:31:26 -0600 Message-ID: References: <2301.12.247.253.40.1030094569.squirrel@sc.am> In-Reply-To: <2301.12.247.253.40.1030094569.squirrel@sc.am> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.92/32.572 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade, course of action. Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 90c71cea-5a3d-4787-927b-7ec8154c2234 X-Archives-Hash: 71a184c30a076fdf85ccab74002aa600 While visiting the prison at D'Ni on Fri, 23 Aug 2002 04:22:49 -0500 (CDT), "Gregg" was overheard saying to the guard: >I run a server, it hosts 127 websites. Has many users for various other >things. It is currently on a celeron 600 overclocked to 675, with 256 >megs of ram. The motherboard supports celeron and pII. It is beginning >to choke. It is time to upgrade the motherboard, cpu and ram. Since = this >is an old setup (celeron and old mobo) what do I need to do when = replacing >them. Everything is obviously compiled for it. I have not changed any = of >my flags in the configuration files. So it is all just i686 in the >c*flags. I want to go up to an athlon 2200. So, what do I need to >consider before switching them out, what do I need to do afterword . = This >is a 1.3b_test system with all the latest updates (except gcc 3.2, I am >still on 3.1.1) I'm new to the list and Gentoo, but I would think that your new Athlon would run the i686 binaries without trouble at all. If I were in your position I'd do the hardware upgrade and then after the upgrade, change the flags to Athlon optimizations. As you upgrade packages your system will slowly convert over to Athlon-specific binaries. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong!