Preupgrade??

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Apr 27 08:31:47 UTC 2010


Paolo Galtieri:
>> 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.

Paul W. Frields
> 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. 

In the meantime, if you can't resize your existing boot, but can resize
another partition, or have some other spare partition, you could make up
a second boot partition, and use that instead.

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