On 05/29/2010 11:39 AM, Alan Evans wrote: > Preupgrade is complaining that I don't have enough space in > /boot/upgrade. How much space is needed? Preupgrade is not telling me. > It *did* tell me that I could continue if I had a wired network > connection. I do have, so I continued; and then after finally > downloading all the packages (much time) and rebooting it apparently > couldn't find the driver for my network card. Bother. > > Cancelling at that point and rebooting did bring back my F12, so that > was good. But I've cleaned out boot as much as I think possible and > still there's not enough space. > > I thought this was done to death during the last upgrade cycle. And I > think I have a non-upgraded install of F12 on this machine, yet /boot > is still too small for preupgrade to work! Ack! > > Will this work if I go buy a generic network card? Apparently the one > already installed (and that I'm using now) is no good for the > installer. > > -Alan > It told me the same thing. At that point, I booted from a live CD, installed gparted and resized the boot partition to take 500M (took space from swap, which was 2G). Then preupgrade succeeded perfectly and I'm running F13 right now. Since the packages are already downloaded, you should be able to retry without having to get them again. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
