[mythtv-users] Upgrading from 32-bit to 64-bit and maybe a distroswitch?

[John Haywood]

On 20/06/2009, at 7:11 AM, Jarod Wilson wrote:

> On Jun 19, 2009, at 4:08 PM, belcampo wrote:
>
>> Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>> On Jun 19, 2009, at 1:33 PM, jedi wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 03:34:35PM -0600, match at ece.utah.edu wrote:
>>>>> On 19 Jun 2009 at 0:37, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Are people really still afraid of 64-bit? I've had my head in  
>>>>>> the sand
>> Are there any facts/tests which show the benefits of going 64-bit,  
>> aside from the theoretical advantages ?
>
>
> Being able to address more than 4GB of memory directly and having a  
> sane number of cpu registers to work with (x86-specific, mostly  
> irrelevant in ppc land, ppc32 isn't register-starved like ix86) are  
> certainly more than just theoretical advantages. Granted, a lot of  
> desktop users don't need more than 4GB and its taken some time for  
> applications to be updated to take advantage of the increased  
> register space, but it *is* happening. Anything that relies heavily  
> on vectorized code (such as multimedia encoding/decoding) and  
> anything that involves a lot of encryption work (VPN, WEP/WPA, disk  
> encryption) benefits from the increased register space (assuming  
> software is updated for it, that is -- which is the case for a good  
> amount of open-source software).

OK, Jarod's point is well taken -why distro-hop?

All the reasons I went with Mythdora in the first place are still  
there - out-of-the-box support for my hardware (Fusion HDTV - not the  
MCE edition), even the wireless card is detected, I just can't get it  
to join my WPA2 network, plus a sensible fs layout - I'm not a fan of  
long-term storage under /var myself - and a decent mythtv user etc  
etc ...

So, onto the next questions:

I currently have a PATA-based system, my new one is going to be SATA -  
so I need to move everything across.
The mythtv-wiki gives instructions on how to move the database across,  
and I can just copy the /storage across to a new drive, but is there  
any way to get all my settings, channel ids, shepherd configs (I'm in  
Australia) and the like across?

Cheers

John in Sydney