[mythtv-users] Is upgrading an ancient system using apt-get recommended?

[William Munson]

David Schmidt wrote:
> On 5/31/07, William Munson <william_munson at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>   
>> Depending on your system you may find that 0.20.1 requires more system
>> resources than your system has.
>>     
>
> Yeah, I do recall that now that you mention it...  Wonder if I could
> apt-get upgrade just the Fedora stuff and leave Myth 0.18.1....
>
>   
>> If I were going to go that route I would
>> watch everything worth watching and start over fresh with a install of
>> MythDora or KnoppixMyth. They both should result in a pretty much
>> painless "lean and mean" myth box.
>>
>>     
>
> [this part in response to Brian, as well]
> Well, it's not stuff I'm not caught up on, it's stuff I want to keep.
> Recipes from cooking shows I haven't had time to pause every few
> seconds to transcribe to paper (my other hobby is cooking),
> performances of music, etc. that aren't available for sale yet, etc.
>
> Also, like I said, it's not a dedicated Myth box.  It also has
> bookmarks, documents, etc. from Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, etc.
> that if I blew those away WAF would be *ZERO*. (-;
>
>
> Thanks everyone for the input so far.  If someone knows about the
> viability of using apt-get for the upgrade, feel free to chime in.  I
> won't have time to do any of it until Saturday, anyway....
>
>   
Since you put it that way, I see why you want to keep everything. My 
past experience with apt-get is that it does not handle  large upgrades 
well. If you are happy with what you have now, don't touch it. (Just be 
sure to back everything up as that old of a system is going to develop 
hardware problems at some point.)