[mythtvnz] Upgrade/Reinstall tips

[Jason Taylor]

+1 for mythbuntu if only for the ppa's makes upgrading from 0.25, 0.26 to
0.27 very easy

Using raspbmc on an raspberry pi the myth plugin works well, can't say I
use the scheduler though


On 24 September 2013 09:56, Rob Connolly <rob at webworxshop.com> wrote:

> 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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