FC7 to FC8 Upgrade - fc8 needs 8KB ?

[Jim Duda]

I believe I have plenty of space:

lroom# df -v
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
192.168.1.254:/tftpboot/muekow/i386
                      191782336  53905984 127977152  30% /nfsroot
none                    258464        32    258432   1% /dev
/dev/shm                258464         0    258464   0% /dev/shm
192.168.1.254:/home  191782336  53905984 127977152  30% /home
192.168.1.254:/media 769177664 155350368 590384128  21% /media

However, this is a NFS mounted root file system (diskless head).

lroom# mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
none on / type ramfs (rw)
192.168.1.254:/tftpboot/muekow/i386 on /nfsroot type nfs 
(rw,vers=3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,nolock,proto=udp,timeo=7,retrans=3,sec=sys,addr=192.168.1.254)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw)
/dev/shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
192.168.1.254:/home on /home type nfs 
(rw,vers=3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,nolock,proto=udp,timeo=7,retrans=3,sec=sys,addr=192.168.1.254)
192.168.1.254:/media on /media type nfs 
(rw,vers=3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,nolock,proto=udp,timeo=7,retrans=3,sec=sys,addr=192.168.1.254)
/etc/auto.misc on /misc type autofs 
(rw,fd=5,pgrp=1912,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect)
-hosts on /net type autofs 
(rw,fd=10,pgrp=1912,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect)
/etc/auto.usb on /mnt/usb type autofs 
(rw,fd=15,pgrp=1912,timeout=2,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect)

So technically the / filesystem is running from local RAM and all the 
various pieces are mounted via mount points.

IIRC, I was able to upgrade this way from FC6 to FC7 without any issues.

Jim






Jim Cornette wrote:
> Jim Duda wrote:
>> I'm trying to upgrade from FC7 to FC8 via Yum.
>>
>> After dependencies are resolved and download occurs, the update 
>> starts, but fails with these messages:
>>
>>   installing package fedora-release-8-5 needs 8KB on the / filesystem
>>   installing package perl-XML-SAX-0.16-2.fc8 needs 8KB on the / 
>> filesystem
>>   installing package xorg-x11-drv-tek4957-1.1.0-4.fc8 needs 8KB on the 
>> / filesystem
>>   installing package foomatic-3.0.2-53.fc8 needs 8KB on the / filesystem
>>   installing package libgpg-error-1.5-6 needs 8KB on the / filesystem
>>   installing package iksemel-1.3-2.fc8 needs 8KB on the / filesystem
>>   installing package perl-XML-LibXML-Common-0.13-9 needs 8KB on the / 
>> filesystem
>>   installing package glx-utils-7.0.2-3.fc8 needs 8KB on the / filesystem
>>   installing package rpm-python-4.4.2.2-7.fc8 needs 8KB on the / 
>> filesystem
>>
>> Error Summary
>> -------------
>>
>> Can anyone explain what needs 8KB on / filesystem means?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jim
>>
> 
> Since upgrading all at once is limited by the amount of disk space 
> available in /var/cache/yum you might try to do incremental updates 
> starting with glibc and allowing it to pull in deps for the lib. 
> Afterward you might update certain packages in a certain alphabet like 
> yum -y upgrade "[a-d]*" and similar ranging.
> 
> You could make /var/cache/yum a larger drive depending on how your 
> partitions are setup. The incremental upgrade is the best approach. Also 
> upgrading in a real virtual terminal rather than a terminal within the 
> GUI is safer. If X crashes during a major upgrade you are i for a real 
> mess cleaning up the system.
> 
> Jim
>