preupgrade: not enough space again

[Sam Varshavchik]

Konstantin Svist writes:

> On 05/29/2010 11:39 AM, Alan Evans wrote:
>> Preupgrade is complaining that I don't have enough space in
>> /boot/upgrade. How much space is needed? Preupgrade is not telling me.
>> It *did* tell me that I could continue if I had a wired network
>> connection. I do have, so I continued; and then after finally
>> downloading all the packages (much time) and rebooting it apparently
>> couldn't find the driver for my network card. Bother.
>>
>> Cancelling at that point and rebooting did bring back my F12, so that
>> was good. But I've cleaned out boot as much as I think possible and
>> still there's not enough space.
>>
>> I thought this was done to death during the last upgrade cycle. And I
>> think I have a non-upgraded install of F12 on this machine, yet /boot
>> is still too small for preupgrade to work! Ack!
>>
>> Will this work if I go buy a generic network card? Apparently the one
>> already installed (and that I'm using now) is no good for the
>> installer.
>>
>> -Alan
>>   
> 
> It told me the same thing. At that point, I booted from a live CD,
> installed gparted and resized the boot partition to take 500M (took
> space from swap, which was 2G). Then preupgrade succeeded perfectly and
> I'm running F13 right now.
> Since the packages are already downloaded, you should be able to retry
> without having to get them again.

You could always download the full DVD, and run the upgrade from the DVD.


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