[mythtv-users] FC5 to FC6 upgrade
Greg Woods
greg at gregandeva.net
Thu Apr 26 16:20:13 UTC 2007
I'm currently running a backend under FC5 that has a PVR-500 and an HD
Homerun for tuners. My basic question is about upgrading FC5 to FC6; can
I do this with an upgrade or is it just as easy to do a complete
reinstall? I am running SVN compiled from source if that makes a
difference.
There are two main reasons for wanting to upgrade: a minor one is that
FC6 contains a driver for my HP722C printer that I would like to attach
to this server so I can have a shared printer in the basement. The
second and more important reason is that my experience with external
FireWire disks is that FireWire works far better under FC6 than under
FC5. I don't know for sure this would apply to getting FireWire from a
DCT-6200 cable box, but I suspect it would. I have never been able to
make this work under FC5; all I get is empty recordings (and yes, I've
read the Wiki and past threads on this subject and I've tried every
suggestion and procedure that I could find without any success). This is
now a larger issue because, as has been discussed in a different thread,
there are more channels available over FireWire than previously, and I
might even be able to get a couple of key HD channels this way that are
not available to my HD Homerun.
Has anybody done an FC5 -> FC6 upgrade? How was it? Is it better to
completely reinstall or do an upgrade? Did it help get FireWire working?
--Greg
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