Fedora 18 + MythTV

Yet another Fedora upgrade.

background:

been running fedora for the past few years at home; 
Started when I found a machine from a local store that came with it pre-installed (!).

So been updating to the "even" builds, on my mythtv machine ever since.

last update was Fedora 14 -> 16, but did make some mistakes on it then:

did not get the boot sequence correct, and grub was not installed correctly;

ended up installing older second hard disk to boot, and left all my videos on a second "data disk"

Further note:  This machine has "evolved" over time;  Original motherboard died twice, finally gave up and picked up a new motherboard, with a different cpu, went from celeron to amd e350


this time:
Fedora 18 install on a clean 2GB disk, then manual copy the mysql mythtv database + data files.  Did this via an external usb and a netbook on my network...

beginner gotcha: straight scp will make copies of symlinks.... if you have created a subdirectory of symlinks, you end up with two copies of all the files!

Notes so far:

mythtv not in the default fedora repos.
added repo and installed vanilla mythtv+mythweb
copied over the mysql database.






have almost 1TB of video files... that takes a LONG time to copy over a slower network and /or external USB drive or WiFi ...

if you can: use USB3, eSata, or connect both drives to the internal sata !

on initial start: mythtv upgraded database:  nice!
(I let it, as I had the original)

running now:

still have some issues with selinux;

did not allow mysql or mythweb to run;  need to manually setup these


will add further details as I think of them...