new motherboard - reinstall ubuntu?

Niran Babalola iamniran at gmail.com
Mon Aug 22 07:04:23 UTC 2005


On 8/21/05, Martin Ericsson <i00marer at island.liu.se> wrote:
> Will I have
> to reinstall ubuntu and if so, is there any way that I can store
> settings (modified configuration files, installed packages etc..)?

I don't think you'll have to actually reinstall since hotplug takes
care of new hardware, but if the motherboard has an integrated video
card, you'll probably need to do a "sudo dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xorg" so the X configuration file can be regenerated for the
new card.

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Niran Babalola
http://niran.org




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