[mythtvnz] Upgrade/Reinstall tips

[Rob Connolly]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 09:51:54PM +1200, criggie wrote:
> PFFT  two years?   Mine was installed in 2005 and the only two
> annoying things are the architecture is i386 and the disks are
> getting old.  sda is at 86159 power on hours.
> Actually now I think about it, none of the hardware other than one
> tuner card is in common with the original backend box.
> 

I'm going to assume thats an Arch system also. If so I'm impressed. I
just didn't keep up well with all the updates, so when I did try to
update the large number of changes always killed something. Also, pacman
does not support partial updates, so even adding a package became
difficult after a while.

That said, the current setup is pretty damn stable if you just leave it
alone (but I don't want to do that, since it's absolutely NOT an
appliance!).

> 
> Pick your battles - install a distro and myth on the backend
> separately to faffing with xbmc.
> 
> If you can install to a different disk (and save your original root
> disk) then a restore is as easy as changing disks.
> 
> Set aside a whole day, make sure there's no lotto draw or anything
> TV boredcast that swmbo needs to see.
> 
> And if it all goes suspiciously well, something's broken AND hiding
> from you.
> 
> Cynical?  Yes - its a geek occupational hazard.
> 

Well, I actually have closer to three days available. So hopefully
enough time to get everything running!

Cheers,

Rob

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