[mythtv-users] Sanity check before I upgrade

Shanon Mulley shanonmulleyster at gmail.com
Mon Jul 24 01:56:28 UTC 2006


Is there any particular reason why your going to FC4 rather then FC5?
(I recently rebuilt my machine after it died mysteriously - previously
FC4, rebuilt as FC5 without to many problems, except a few I made up
myself.

On 7/24/06, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm about to upgrade my FC3 MythTV system to FC4 in the hope that it
> will stop getting system lock-ups where the only solution is to press
> the reset button. Could someone please advise whether this is a sound
> upgrade plan?
>
> 1) Do a complete backup of everything except the recordings partition
> (don't have room to back that up)
>
> 2) Use mysqldump to export the complete mythconverg database.
>
> 3) Do a fresh install of FC4 from CD taking care not to blow away the
> recordings partition.
>
> 4) Configure my capture cards etc as per Jarod Wilson's excellent guide.
>
> 5) Install MythTV from ATrpms binaries.
>
> 6) Import the mysql dump I took in step 2.
>
> I should now be up and running, shouldn't I? The main thing I wanted
> to check is that by exporting and importing the mythconverg database I
> would have all the settings and recording scheules just as I had them
> before without having to redo them all?
>
> Regards,
> Phill
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