Sorry， I sent a blank mail to list. <div><br></div><div>When user starts to use preupgrade, it downloads installer files into /boot. Then reboot the computer and begin the upgrade process. </div><div><br></div><div>The method will cause a problem, if /boot does not have enough spaces, preupgrade can not finish the upgrade. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Preupgrade is a tool to download netinstall files to local disk and configure the grub and calculate how many packages your system should be upgraded. So why not put the installer file to / or another bigger directory. I think that preupgrade can create a directory in root partition and put installer into it. The installer should run after reconfigure the grub.conf or grub.cfg for grub 2. I believe that that is better than files locating in /boot for the reason that root filesystem usually has more spaces. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Liang Suilong</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Liang Suilong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:liangsuilong@gmail.com">liangsuilong@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Richard Hughes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hughsient@gmail.com" target="_blank">hughsient@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On 29 April 2010 07:51, Kevin Kofler <<a href="mailto:kevin.kofler@chello.at" target="_blank">kevin.kofler@chello.at</a>> wrote:<br>
> Why does the "too low /boot space to install" testcase (which is actually<br>
> the common case when upgrading from F12 or F11) still require manually<br>
> removing excess kernels, 6 months after this issue became initially known?<br>
<br>
</div>Because nobody has written a patch to do this yet.<br>
<div><br>
> Preupgrade should do this automatically. After the upgrade, ALL the old<br>
> kernels will be removed anyway, so I don't see how it hurts to remove all<br>
> except the running one right away.<br>
<br>
</div>Sure, as long as you're currently running the latest kernel then I<br>
guess this makes sense. Patches very welcome.<br>
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