On Tuesday 15 February 2005 14:45, Scott Francis wrote: > So on this same thread...what would be the saner approach going from > FC1->FC3? Do a fresh install but don't reformat my media partitions or > attempt to go through the upgrade process. I've had minimal success > with upgrades before in the past. I've been sitting at FC1 for a while > and like it, but know that my days of being supported are limited so I > might as well bite the bullet. I have the FC3 dvd ready to go I'm just > trying to figure out which way will have the least headache. > > Any thoughts, opinion, words of comfort :)
I went the fresh install route with my backend migration this weekend. Fresh
install was on a separate machine though. I have one drive for the OS and
live TV buffer, then an LVM group for recordings. I installed everything on
the new machine, then stopped mythbackend and mysql on the old backend,
copied /var/lib/mysql/* over to the new box, exported the LVM group, shut
down both boxes, moved the LVM group drives to the new box, started it back
up, imported the LVM, started up mysql (now running 4.1.9 to boot), started
up mythbackend, and everything was just peachy. Less than an hour of
downtime.
Of course, you're looking at more downtime if you aren't doing the fresh
install on another machine, but probably still less than the amount of time
as going the upgrade-via-CD/DVD and then fix what's broken route, and no
legacy cruft. Part of the "fix what's broken" depends on how far astray from
a stock FC1 system you've got. An upgrade where all you had installed was FC1
packages wouldn't be as bad as, say, the FC1 to FC3 upgrade I did on my
workstation, which had probably a few hundred packages from several different
repositories.
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