<br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/15 Greg Cope <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gregcope@gmail.com">gregcope@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I needed to upgrade a combined front/backend running on a Via SP130000<br>
based System.<br>
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Due to lots of reasons, I tend to not upgrade once a system works (if<br>
is not broken no need for me to fix it). WAF means downtime is not a<br>
popular option :-) So I am looking for something that is easy and<br>
stable (might rule out Fedora)<br>
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I need to use Xvmc, which presently works, and I understand works on Mythbuntu.<br>
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Is this a sane idea?<br>
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Thoughts welcome.<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>Greg hi,<br><br>(Greg and I know each other)<br><br>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.<br>
<br>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. <br><br>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 <br>
<br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore</a><br><br>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.<br>
<br>Thats all right now.<br>cheers<br>dave s<br>