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A problem of my own making. :(

I misremembered which version of Mint I had installed on my HTPC before
it became unbootable.

It was in fact 22.0 but I believed it was 19.3.
So once I reinstalled it to the latter I tried to reintroduce the
mythconverg database. (I had backed that up).

BUT the schemas are different. (Note I still have the recordings).

Now I felt that it should be possible to populate the earlier version
(32) with matching elements from the earlier version (32) by now.
Surely someone would have produced a script.

My new VBF (ChatGPT) says not. It recommends that I reinstall with Mint
22 but frankly I have had more computer agravation over the last four
months than I can stand!
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From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.mint

On Sat, 9/20/2025 4:45 PM, pinnerite wrote:

A problem of my own making. :(

I misremembered which version of Mint I had installed on my HTPC before
it became unbootable.

It was in fact 22.0 but I believed it was 19.3.
So once I reinstalled it to the latter I tried to reintroduce the
mythconverg database. (I had backed that up).

BUT the schemas are different. (Note I still have the recordings).

Now I felt that it should be possible to populate the earlier version
(32) with matching elements from the earlier version (32) by now.
Surely someone would have produced a script.

My new VBF (ChatGPT) says not. It recommends that I reinstall with Mint
22 but frankly I have had more computer agravation over the last four
months than I can stand!

So first question, why is the HTPC lacking of storage ?

Do you have enough storage to do a LM22 of some sort,
*beside* the existing LM19.3 which you don't like
at the moment ?

+-----+--------+------+------+------------+
| ESP | LM19.3 | SWAP | DATA | New LM22.x | UEFI boot, GPT partition
+-----+--------+------+------|------------+ You did make this modern boot, right ?

You should be able to install beside something, without
interfering with its operation too much. Then you
will have a boot menu with two OSes in it. A multi-boot.

And if you fumble it somehow, the Boot Repair DVD can
set it right again.

One detail, is the handling of SWAP. Multiboot goes easier
if SWAP is a /swapfile. This wastes space, but it makes
multiple OSes easier to manage at update/upgrade time.
A shared swap is a nuisance because each OS will try and
change the identifier on it, with comic results (the
boot takes longer, and the on-screen log shows the
OS searching for RAID arrays and other things, that
might be hiding a swap partition).

You're an experienced user. You should hardly need the
training wheels of your ChatGPT Magical 8ball solution
finder :-)

Paul
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On Sat, 20 Sep 2025 21:18:30 -0400
Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

On Sat, 9/20/2025 4:45 PM, pinnerite wrote:

A problem of my own making. :(

I misremembered which version of Mint I had installed on my HTPC before
it became unbootable.

It was in fact 22.0 but I believed it was 19.3.
So once I reinstalled it to the latter I tried to reintroduce the mythconverg database. (I had backed that up).

BUT the schemas are different. (Note I still have the recordings).

Now I felt that it should be possible to populate the earlier version
(32) with matching elements from the earlier version (32) by now.
Surely someone would have produced a script.

My new VBF (ChatGPT) says not. It recommends that I reinstall with Mint
22 but frankly I have had more computer agravation over the last four months than I can stand!

So first question, why is the HTPC lacking of storage ?

Do you have enough storage to do a LM22 of some sort,
*beside* the existing LM19.3 which you don't like
at the moment ?

+-----+--------+------+------+------------+
| ESP | LM19.3 | SWAP | DATA | New LM22.x | UEFI boot, GPT partition
+-----+--------+------+------|------------+ You did make this modern boot, right ?

You should be able to install beside something, without
interfering with its operation too much. Then you
will have a boot menu with two OSes in it. A multi-boot.

And if you fumble it somehow, the Boot Repair DVD can
set it right again.

I probably do have enough storage but I not in the mood for a
"two-state solution".

One detail, is the handling of SWAP. Multiboot goes easier
if SWAP is a /swapfile. This wastes space, but it makes
multiple OSes easier to manage at update/upgrade time.
A shared swap is a nuisance because each OS will try and
change the identifier on it, with comic results (the
boot takes longer, and the on-screen log shows the
OS searching for RAID arrays and other things, that
might be hiding a swap partition).

You're an experienced user. You should hardly need the
training wheels of your ChatGPT Magical 8ball solution
finder :-)

Paul

Iam sorry to say, bits are falling off as the years go by.
I long for the days when 64k was enormous! :)

Alan
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Linux Mint 22.1 kernel version 6.8.0-79-generic Cinnamon 6.4.8
AMD Ryzen 7 7700, Radeon RX 6600, 32GB DDR5, 2TB SSD, 2TB Barracuda
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