[mythtv-users] Upgrade from MythDora to latest MythBuntu

[Gary Dawes]

I went though a similar exercise last year when I upgraded from a Knoppmyth
installation to Mythbuntu. Combined BE/FE as well

It was really easy and relatively straightforward. All my recordings, music,
video etc was all on a seperate partition, as was my database backups.

I just made sure I had a couple of up to date backups, including /etc /home,
and /usr/local/bin.

Installed mythbuntu (64 bit)over the existing / partition

Mounted /myth, and added it to fstab

restored the .mythtv directory for the mythtv user.

Restored my database (largest pain as the schema upgrade to 0.22 was not
smooth, but that was a mythtv issue, not a knoppmyth/mythbuntu issue)

reconfigured LIRC for my MCE remote and blaster, and then copied over my
custom config files, and channel changing script.

Installed NFS and Samba, and recreated the network shares. Mythbuntu's
defaults are different to knoppmyth's and I wanted to keep as was.

The box is actually quicker and more stable than before. Oh, and I have now
got my frontends booting diskless over the network, which I never got to
work in Knoppmyth.
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