[mythtv-users] Best upgrade path from 0.23 on Karmic 9.10

[Michael T. Dean]

On 06/26/2013 07:35 PM, Rod Roark wrote:
> In-place upgrades of Ubuntu are generally not recommended.  When I
> allocate a hard drive for a server I'll reserve an extra partition to be
> root for the next release.  Then when the time comes I can do a fresh
> install of the new release while keeping the option to boot the old
> release.  Also that leaves all your configuration files on the old root
> partition, much of which can be copied over as-is to the new one.
> Copying your MythTV database over will be an additional step, not
> difficult if you follow directions according to the old and new versions
> of MySQL.

Best if you just do a backup of the old database before you upgrade, 
then restore the backup to the new MySQL server, as described at 
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore . That will 
/always/ work, regardless of changes to MySQL versions, etc.

> And as I learned, it's best if you use the same hostname. :)

Definitely.

Mike