Some more thoughts on the migration to the new MythTv server/client process I started talking about last week House PC Restructure
Already got MythTv installed on the Sempron 2400 on Suse 10.0 (dual booting to WinXP) to test things out.
So the plan is to still test out MythTv on this dualboot system for now. Actually it’s the MythTv backend that I want to first get working. It’s kinda hard since I don’t have a Cable connection in the office, but I’ll figure something out. I can almost get channel 6 if I attach a coax to the WinTV card and string it out around the room.
So get MythTv backend working with recording shows, and set up the Athlon 700 with a copy of the KnoopMyth frontend, just so I don’t have to fiddle with setting up a frontend of MythTV.
Once those 2 computers work well together to allow TV watching as well as DVD and archived videos, I will re-install Suse (on the Sempron 2400 backend server PC) and get a fresh install, with the minimal number of programs, to keep things running as fast as possible, as well as to re-learn how to install the backend, and be comfortable with all the settings that are required.
I will also try to tweak the KnoopMyth frontend PC to boot up as quickly as possible. I will keep that PC turned off except for when watching stuff on it. No point on it using electricity needlessly.

The file server (with all the video files) will initially remain on the Win2003 box (with the 2x250gig drives) Don’t want to complicate things too much right off the bat.
Hopefully this spring I will get to migrating those drives to the new MythTv backend server, and putting that old 400Mhz PII out of commision.
I will likely wait till I buy another drive (250-300gigs) and then migrate the data over one drive at a time. (format the new drive to XFS, copy data from existing drive. Then format existing drive to XFS and copy data from the last drive, and then reformat the last drive to XFS as well)
Other option is to buy a 250 gig drive from futureshop, use it to allow formating the older drives to XFS, copy data, and then return the drive.
Seeing how I still have about 100 gigs free space, I might do that one weekend.