Linux help installing redhat harddrive into another computer and

[Christopher Browne]

I imagine that this means that you're running a pretty old Linux flavour
which compiled in specific network kernel device drivers, whereas in these
modern days, distributions tend to compile them *all*, and keep them in
/lib/modules/... where they may be referenced on demand.  It's possible
that if you build a fresh kernel, and specify the particular network
device, it'll all be golden.

My suspicion is that this is a situation which might be well-served by the
use of virtualization.

That is, to build an "image" of a Linux distribution that can run the
software, and untie that from any particular hardware.

It may take some struggle to build the VM, and to get that to the point of
installing the accounting software onto it.  Of course, after that point,
you are pretty much immunized from hardware changes from then on (to double
the metaphor a bit).  This approach allows you to keep running the same old
mouldy binaries until such time as the system suffers something worse, such
as the 2038 problem...
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