On Saturday 29 May 2010 22:05:12 Konstantin Svist wrote: > 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. FYI, preupgrade does work with the default 200meg /boot partition, I did it here on this small raid system, no LVM all ext4, F12 > F13.. More info here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=573451 NOTE.. I guess your mileage may vary depending on the hardware as Alan found out :( Colin -- Fedora release 13 (Goddard) Registered Linux user number #342953 -- 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
