Preupgrade??

[Paolo Galtieri]

On 04/26/2010 04:59 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:31:05AM -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
>    
>> On 04/26/2010 10:19 AM, Beartooth wrote:
>>      
>>> 	Since it's late April, with F13 due next month, I presume that
>>> preupgrade must working, or about to start working, no? But I've seen
>>> precious few posts here about it -- and in view of the things ordinary
>>> updates seem to've been breaking lately, I'm a little spooky.
>>>
>>> 	Any word on it?
>>>
>>>        
>> I used it once to upgrade a system and it worked fine.  However, to make
>> it work I had to remove almost everything from /boot because the default
>> size of 200Mb is too small to work with preupgrade.  If your /boot is
>> 200Mb I would suggest upgrading via dvd rather than preupgrade.
>>      
> Right, that's been a sort of painful transition, which is one reason
> why preupgrade isn't as "official" as it should someday be.
>
> Now Fedora by default installs a 500 MB /boot, which should be
> sufficient for the foreseeable future.  (Admittedly in free software,
> things change rapidly so the horizon of "foreseeable" isn't as long as
> you might find in crustier realms.) ;-)
>
>    
The question is will F13 resize /boot on an upgrade or will the 500Mb 
/boot appear only if you do a fresh install?  I really don't want to 
have to re-install to get the bigger /boot.

Paolo