[mythtv-users] Upgrade Help! fc3 .18 to fc5 .19

[Ian Forde]

On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 13:30 -0700, Gregg wrote:
> I have hosed my system and wanted to pass this by everyone to see what
> you thought.  I can no longer use rpm on my system, and rather than
> try to match all dependencies restoring it,  I wanted to upgrade the
> system to fc5 using a dvd, then upgrade .18 to .19 using yum.  Will
> this work? or should I just start from scratch? 

1. Stop myth processes
2. Backup mysql
3. Backup the OS
4. Reinstall using FC5 (including mysql-server)
5. Patch OS
6. Add 3rd party repos to yum config
7. Restore database
8. Install myth
9. Tweak settings to what they were before, relying on your backup for
config items, cron jobs, scripts, etc... (things like
modprobe.conf, .asoundrc, .mplayer/config...)

Assuming that your recordings are on a different partition than your OS
drive, you should be okay.  FWIW, I'm migrating my MBE from FC3-x86_64
to FC5-x86_64 right now.  I'm currently on step 3.  I'm hoping to get it
done today so that I can still get tomorrow's World Cup matches... ;)

	-I