NFS Root Media Centre v2.0
So I've been running my home media centre on Mageia for the last year or so and Mandriva before that. Rather than just a simple setup with a normal disk, I like to try and make things complicated for myself. I don't necessarily do this because it's the best and most efficient setup (it's very likely NOT!), but I do it for the sake of learning how things work and glue together, maintainability and, in theory at least, replication to more hardware as I expand my house and the media player "outlets".
So a little over a year ago I wrote about how to setup Mageia 1 with network booting and an NFS root, so with all the changes in Mageia 2's init system (switch to systemd and dracut), and because I wanted to switch the architecture to x86_64, I figured a re-image was called for and of course I tried to take appropriate notes so others can learn from this experience - perhaps putting it to more practical use than just a single home media centre!!
Up up [upgrade] and away
So, as with any distro release, the recent Mageia 2 announcement means that I have a few boxes to upgrade. With one of my boxes however, the upgrade is somewhat more complicated as I wanted to switch from 32-bit to 64 bit. Now, with the benefit of hindsight (or with a bit of basic thought before hand) I can say that a re-install of the box would have likely been several orders of magnitude easier, but I like to push boundaries so I opted to do an in-place urpmi upgrade while switching architectures. Read on if you'd like to bask in the glow of this experience!
The Magic Continues
Hot on the heals of the awesome PulseAudio 2.0 release, I am very please to announce Mageia 2! It's been a lot of very hard work and I inadvertently ended up doing a lot more than I had originally intended but I can't complain - while it was a lot of hard work and a massive time sink for the last few months, I certainly learned a great deal and feel I've contributed to a great user experience.
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