On 11/17/2010 12:40 PM, Alan J. Gagne wrote: >> Jerry Feldman wrote: >>> On 11/17/2010 11:36 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >>>> Just a "in my experience" note, running an upgrade from a DVD/USB has been far >>>> more successful than preupgrade for me. Older installs had a small /boot and >>>> often don't work well due to lack of room. YMMV. >>> When I installed F13 from DVD, I specifically allocated a larger /boot >>> for this specific reason. My /boot is 485MB. >>> >> If preupgrade runs in that I'd love to know how much stuff it installs. And >> doesn't change my feelings about the inherent complexity of doing an in-place >> upgrade on a running system. > On three machines I just upgraded to F14 from F13 they have 300MB /boot. > I took all three down to just the running kernel prior to using > preupgrade. Just before the reboot to the actual upgrade it reports I > have 60MB left on /boot and need 26MB for the kernel. I think next time > around I will need to do fresh installs so I can resize my /boot. > > Alan We have noticed a couple times that if /boot is very full BEFORE preupgrade downloads anything, it will prompt to do a network based preupgrade which works well. We are now planning to always slam junk into /boot before running preupgrade :) The networked version should ALWAYS show as an option, in my opinion. Good Luck! -- 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
