<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pocallaghan@gmail.com">pocallaghan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 08:02 -0700, Tod Thomas wrote:<br>
> I've installed VirtualBox on a Win7 workstation and established a<br>
> running<br>
> FC14 VM. Everything was fine until I tried doing a yum upgrade and<br>
> then I<br>
> discovered my boot partition needed to be at least 7GB! to be able to<br>
> perform the upgrade.<br>
<br>
</div>That can't de right. No way does the boot partition need to be 7GB. More<br>
like 500MB. Do you mean the root partition? If so, try saving space by<br>
moving /var/cache/yum to a different partition and leaving a symlink in<br>
its place.<br>
<br>
poc<br>
<font color="#888888"></font><br></blockquote><div><font color="#888888"><br>I typed GB but meant MB:<br><br>Running rpm_check_debug<br>Running Transaction Test<br><br><br>Transaction Check Error:<br> installing package kernel-2.6.35.12-90.fc14.i686 needs 7MB on the /boot filesystem<br>
<br>Error Summary<br>-------------<br>Disk Requirements:<br> At least 7MB more space needed on the /boot filesystem.<br></font> <br><br>/dev/sda1 49M 26M 21M 57% /boot<br><br></div></div>