That is my question.

After a couple of long months and a steep Linux learning curve, I’ve finally got a working box. Family is able to watch OTA HD and listen to music nicely, but not flawlessly. Still some tweaking to do, but it’s very useable and the WAF is going up every day. I’ve been through the modeline wars, the remote battles, ALSA upgrades and the wireless network headaches in R5D1.

But now, before I even get D1 ‘just right’, it seems that everyone is going E50. I want to see the new Myth too, but I fear ‘breaking’ a working box and going back 2+ months. I fear that some of the roads I’ve traveled in the past (modeline configs) might have changed appearance beyond recognition. I also fear that community support for D1 might be harder to come by as the migration continues.

Such is my dilemma…

Thoughts? To ‘E’ or not to ‘E’?

well the bast way if you are worried would be a second hard drive.

You could then clone the system you have onto a second hard drive then update that knowing you have a full working system on your old hard drive.

I had a file system issue and my system would not boot. After a while i managed to backup my config files from D to part of the hard drive then update to E.

Issues i have had so far are
xorg config
paths for storage... default of E is not /myth any more so /myth/videos, /myth/music etc was not the default in the config and i had to change it.

If you are planning on the upgrade i would look at the upgrade guide and check a few things first.

I did not have much choice really, i rarther updates or reinstalled D. So i went for the new version.

So far i have spent a fre hours fixing issues but E seams to be better.

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AMD Athlon XP 3000
768MB RAM DDR 2100
250 PATA Seagate HDD
2 x Nova-T
Cooler Master Cavalar case.
Knoppmyth R5E50

We're on the same page about backing up. I was thinking of swapping HDDs and trying E. In fact I think this is the safest way as I'd have the original HDD set to go if I don't succeed with E.

I've been reading the upgrade threads. Seems as though E is great but install has a few challenges depending on hardware, but I guess that is always going to be the case.

Frankly if D1 wasn't working so well for me, I'd have jumped to E a month ago. Maybe I'll just wait for a good deal on a HDD and try E out then.

I would personally clone your HDD to anotehr HDD then update the cloned version.

This will give you a good idea of disk cloning(you may need it in the future) and also give you all your recorded programs etc from D1.


Check all this before you start, im not infront of a myth system.

install second HDD
find out current names of current and new HDD ie /dev/hda(old) /dev/hdb(New)
boot off live cd.
press CTRL + ALT+ F2
you should now be able to clone HDD like so
"dd =if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb"

if= is used of input file of= used for output file or drive.

Once this has done you should be able to turn off and then swap the hard drives over.
boot up and use the new R5E50 disk and upgrade the System.

I would recomend reading up about this on the net first.

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AMD Athlon XP 3000
768MB RAM DDR 2100
250 PATA Seagate HDD
2 x Nova-T
Cooler Master Cavalar case.
Knoppmyth R5E50

Thanks for the clone tips. I'll upgrage that way as I can roll back if needed.