[mythtv-users] Am I nuts going for Mythbuntu 9.04 on a Via SP13000 system?

[Greg Cope]

Hi Dave.

I have Xvmc running already with the existing, if broken, as it now is
1 hour out, install.  I have been told that this needs to be fixed, so
this is an opporunity :-).

This host has multiple harddrives in different configs (raid/lvm) so I
can break things in a revertable manner.  You'll also be glad to hear
I have a backup strategy that covers nearly everything (I need to
check the mythtv user home dir...) and this is also copied to a USB
drive (ie more than 3 copies of everything).

I will not be doing any hardware changes at present.  The box is
burried in the garage anyway.

Greg

2009/4/15 David Scammell <davescammell at gmail.com>:
>
> (Greg and I know each other)
>
> I suggest you speak to a mutual friend of ours who also has a via board, he
> had some dire trouble with Xvmc on his machine and is not out of the woods
> himself yet on this score. The Via systems I cannot report on from my
> personal experience and you may not have any problems but ymmv.
>
> I would suggest from my experience to find a way of dual booting, use a
> spare old harddrive for the rootfs (or something complex like
> pxe+iscsi/nfs?) so you can easily go back to how it was with a reboot.
>
> Are you using lvm, if so consider snapshotting your media and databases
> areas and perform trial runs on the snapshots, you can easily backout as
> your original data is unharmed. Saying that, be very careful about any
> hardware changes you make, even to the odd bios tweak that seems like a good
> idea at the time might cause problems with the old system if you have to
> backout. Also checkout
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore
>
> The two scripts enclosed there (which work on 0.21) are gold and ease
> migrations greatly if going between myth versions, which I'm not sure you
> are with this upgrade. I'm a debian man so I'd probably recommend lenny,
> latest release (5.0.1) which came out last week but do the research first re
> via+xvmc and it.
>
> Thats all right now.
> cheers
> dave s
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