Upgrading : give me strength ...

[Bill Davidsen]

Beartooth wrote:
> 	I've tried all the tricks on this list a/o the troubleshooting 
> site, over and over. I finally gave up : downloaded and burned a DVD -- 
> and *still* hit the catch-22 error, with too little space in mnt/sysimage/
> boot.
> 
> 	Now what?
> 
> 	Can I simply delete all of /boot, or everything in it? All of 
> grub.conf? Or what? It's going to be a royal pain if I have to burn all 
> my data to media, and then sneakermail that back onto each machine, 
> instead of just upgrading f11 ....
> 
How about this:
- mount a USB drive
- copy /boot to the drive
- remount the USB as /boot in fstab
- upgrade
- do the obvious reversal of the process

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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