MythTV Rebuild
I wanted to grab the large HDD out of my MythTV box so I can take that with me to Vancouver. So I swapped it for a 160GB I had sitting around. It all went surprisingly well. Here's what I did: 1. Installed Mythbuntu on the new disk 2. Once that's booted stop mysql ( sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop ) 3. Copy the database files from the old partition, they can be found in /var/lib/mysql/mythconverg . It pays to make a backup but make sure you don't leave it in /var/lib/mysql or mysql will try to use it as a database. 4. Copy the old recordings to the new recordings folder on the new drive. Now I was at a point were I could watch recordings (Yay!). Live TV and recordings still wouldn't work. I noticed in system settings that the tuners were both unavailable. to fix this run MythTV setup and delete all the capture cards and recreate them. I also had a quirk where mythweb gave an error that the table weatherscreens didn't exist. I rebuild the tables using this pro