Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

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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
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