[mythtv-users] upgrade backend from fc4 to fc9

[James Armstrong]

On Nov 19, 2008, at 10:55 AM, Joe wrote:

> Back when I was running Fedora upgrading was always problematic, even
> between consecutive versions - so I always went with a clean
> installation.  Since then I've switched to Ubuntu (Mythbuntu actually
> for the dedicated boxes) and things are generally smoother.
>
>> Probably the best way is to preserve /home, /etc/ and /var/lib/ 
>> mysql (along
>> with anything else you know you'll need to preserve), do a clean  
>> install,
>> yum update, then start migrating things back.
>
> To make this even easier, I would recommend physically removing the
> FC4 hard disk and installing the new Fedora onto a separate disk, that
> way you'll preserve the complete installation just in case you want to
> revert back (as I have had to do occasionally).  After the new OS
> installation, put the old disk into an external USB box (if you have
> one) so you can copy important files to the new installation.

Thanks, I guess I will wait until 10, then try it. This is my backend  
so I only need to preserve the database and recordings. My recordings  
are on two lvm partitions. Is there something I should do to export /  
save the lvm configuration in order to map it back in after a clean  
install?

- James