[mythtv-users] Upgrading older mythbuntu

[Thomas Mashos]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016, 4:56 AM Marius Schrecker <marius.schrecker at lyse.net>
wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
>  Thanks for the workflow.  Yes. 14.04 is there but there will not be ISO's
> for 16.04 LTS and on, so I thought that, since we're nearly at 16.04 anyway
> it might be better to go for the latest non-LTS release and continue from
> there, just adding the packages to a vanilla or light Ubuntu desktop,
> rather than having to upgrade from 14.04. In my experience, upgrades are
> often riskier than installs.
>
> BR.
>
> --Marius--
>
>
>
> On Thursday, February 4, 2016 13:16 CET, James Abernathy <
> jfabernathy at outlook.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Feb 4, 2016, at 4:36 AM, Marius Schrecker <marius.schrecker at lyse.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sory if this question has already been answered many times, but I'm a
> bit uncertain regarding the best workflow, now that mythbuntu will no
> longer be providing ISO's.
> >
> > My old mythbuntu 12.04 installation has been running quite happily and
> for quite some time now, without updates. But the time has come to both
> partially update the hardware (new disks etc.) clean up and update the
> installation. So my question is what is the best practice for doing so?
> >
> > I was thinking of performing a fresh install of the latest ubuntu
> (flavour? Lubuntu/Xubuntu/other suggestions or desktops...), then adding
> the Mythtv control centre package and dependencies, restoring my old mythtv
> 0.24? database and installing/updating mythtv from there.
> >
> > Is this the best workflow?
> >
>
> For me, I tried several method, but have found that downloading the .ISO
> file from Mythbuntu 14.04.2 then using SDC to create a bootable USB is the
> easiest. You pretty much go thru the MCC as part of the install. The .27
> works great. If I didn’t have to install firmware for my Hauppauge 2250, I
> could so it all in a few minutes. Remembering where to find the firmware
> always takes me the longest :-)
>
> Didn’t understand your comment about no longer providing ISO’s. They are
> still up there.
>
> Jim A
>
> > BR.
> >
> > --Marius--
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There's will be a 16.04 ISO. Not sure why you think there won't.

>
> --
Thomas Mashos
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