[mythtv-users] upgrade woes

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 09/03/2010 12:38 AM, Tom Lichti wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:16 AM,  ojw wrote:
>> I decided that the road to upgrade was going to have to be done with a fresh
>> install.  I have another computer in the house with exactly the same
>> motherboard and CPU (graphics card is on mobo).  Here's my plan, can you all
>> let me know if this has any chance of working and if not, what I might be
>> missing?
>>
>> 1. Put a new hard drive into the extra computer, load FC 13, with
>> development packages, get mythtv, compile and install. (this is essentially
>> how I did the last install of mythtv v0.21 and FC8)
>> 2. NFS mount recording storage drives onto newly loaded FC 13 in the same
>> places that they exist on the original mythtv box.
>> 3. Copy mythconverg database, allow mythtvbackend to upgrade it
>> 4. Make sure navigation, playback and mythtv work
>> 5. Take hard drive out of extra computer, put into original mythtv computer
>>
>> For what it's worth, all my tuners are HDHomerun's (3 HDHR's) so drivers for
>> tuners aren't really a problem.  How does that look like for an upgrade
>> path?  I know it's a hassle but provides minimal downtime but gets me up to
>> date.
> That's pretty much exactly how I upgraded my backend. The only big
> difference was I was already running trunk, I just hit a wall because
> it was running on FC8, and QT was getting too old, so I couldn't keep
> upgrading trunk (this was about a month or so ago). I took a new
> drive, installed FC12, compiled mythtv, re-loaded the database, and I
> was up and running again in a few hours. Granted, my DB was not an
> issue because it was already current, but your strategy seems sound,
> and is what I would do in your situation.

Also, for maximum ease, I highly recommend that your new system should 
use the same host name and IP address as the old system.  If nothing 
else, make sure it has the same name and IP address by the time you run 
the first MythTV application on the system.

Mike