preupgrade: not enough space again

[Timothy Murphy]

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.

Am I alone in thinking that preupgrade was a nice idea
which has never worked perfectly, and which should be quietly dropped?


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