On Wednesday 26 November 2008 05:00:22 M A Young wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Claude Jones wrote: > > The other weird thing is that it said it couldn't download the > > install image or something in /boot due to insufficient space; I > > uninstalled all but the current kernel and I'm showing nearly 70 > > mB of space in /boot; so, I'm not sure what's up with that > > It was trying to pull down the so called stage2 file install.img which is > something like 109Mb. Well, that's a problem. Since forever, I've followed the suggestion of creating a 100 MB boot partition which has been suggested over and over in many different documents that I've read over the years - if I recollect correctly, the default Anaconda install behavior is to create a 100 MB boot partition and do everything else as LVM. Someone correct me here if I'm wrong - if I'm right, it would seem to me that an awful lot of users are going to run into the same issue I did. Fortunately, on some of my machines, I've arbitrarily increased the boot partition size to 200 MB over the years, which is why, I guess, I didn't encounter the issue on my previous two preupgrades... Preupgrade nicely gives you a message when the above happens informing you that it can download the file during the actual installation as long as the computer has a wired connection to the net; but, in my case, the machine is configured with the old network services app with a fixed IP address; one of the first things that happens in the installation is that Network Manager is turned on and asks which NIC I want to configure, and then tries to get an address for that NIC through DHCP - since my machine is not behind a DHCP server and has a static address, the installation fails as it repeatedly gives an error about not being able to get an address and 'do I want to try again;' there appears to be no way to get past this. An upgrade should not be turning on services that weren't on before, in my view. I suppose there are reasons for doing it, but, some optional path needs to be provided for cases where the NIC needs to be manually configured... At least nothing was lost - the restart got me back to my original machine with no damage done each time. I'll try an update from the F10 DVD. -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
