[mythtv-users] Rebuilding a FE/BE system (the stupid way)

Nick F nikos.f at gmail.com
Wed Jan 16 21:27:27 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

>
> So, from a MythTV perspective, this should be a simple and pretty painless
> upgrade.  From a distro perspective--i.e. installing (and getting to know)
> the new distro (and how it does things)--or the LVM-configuration/-changes
> perspective, though, it may not be so simple.  I'll leave helping with
> those things to others who understand them better than I.
>
> Mike
>
>
Mike lays out everything you need to do.  I moved from Fedora to Ubuntu /
Mythbuntu when Fedora got to about v16, and Ubuntu was on 9.something (I
think my /boot partition was too small, and I got sick of the manual steps
needed to upgrade)

After backing up the database as Mike explains (and some other key
configuration files I needed - e.g. my mdadm file), I created some space on
my system drive.  I inserted the Ubuntu installation disc, installed on the
new blank space I had created on my system drive.  I then installed
Mythbuntu from the repos.  After checking that my drives were all mapped
the same way they had been under Fedora, I just pointed Myth to the drives,
restored my database, and that was pretty much all I needed to do.

It was a lot less painful that I feared it would be, and I'm a complete
noob.
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