Is /boot size a concern for just preupgrade or all upgrades ?

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Nov 25 16:20:58 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 09:15 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> Is there a difference in the /boot size requirement for different
> upgrade methods ?  
> 
> Ie does upgrading from the DVD iso take less room on /boot than doing a
> preupgrade via yum ?
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from DVD, upgrading doesn't require any real amount of space beyond that
needed for a kernel install.

from preupgrade, it needs space to download the stage 2 boot but if you
have a wired connection, preupgrade can download the stage 2 boot on the
fly if you don't have enough space in /boot

Craig


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