[mythtv-users] Fedora Core 4 upgrade recomendations

[Paul Netherwood]

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> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Dewey Smolka
> Sent: 06 February 2008 13:36
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Fedora Core 4 upgrade recomendations
> 
> > Upgrade via yum
> > Upgrade via Fedora installation DVD's doing each release in turn as
> > recommended by fedora (which would be 4 upgrades of core 4 to core 5 to
> core
> > 6 to core 7 to core 8!)
> > Start all over with a fresh install of core 8 and reinstall MythTV
> > Go for the latest MythDora installation
> >
> >
> >
> > Upgrades will hopefully preserve my MythTV installation which I can then
> > upgrade with yum. A fresh install means I have to go through the whole
> > MythTV install process again.
> >
> >
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> 
> As long as you have mythconverg and your storage on non-system
> partitions or on their own disks (you don't have your database and
> storage on system partitions, right?) it will probably be a whole lot
> simpler to do a fresh install of Fedora 8 or Mythdora. If you try to
> upgrade through so many versions it will take a lot more time, and
> will most likely break a whole lot of things.

Good point about mythconverg. Although all of my recordings & video etc is
on a separate disk, mythconverg is in the default place of /var/lib/mysql.
I'd need to move it before doing a fresh install. 

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