[mythtv-users] Fedora Core 4 upgrade recomendations

Anthony Giggins seven at seven.dorksville.net
Thu Feb 7 02:00:30 UTC 2008


>> 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.
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If you chose Mythdora I'd wait until the new version is released which
should be just after the release of .21

Cheers,

Anthony


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