preupgrade: not enough space again

[Frank Murphy]

On 30/05/10 13:16, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Alan Evans wrote:
> 
>> Preupgrade is complaining that I don't have enough space in
>> /boot/upgrade. How much space is needed? 

For F13 /boot = 500mb

Preupgrade is not telling me.
>> It *did* tell me that I could continue if I had a wired network
>> connection. 

This was a fix for /boot less than 500mb.

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.

What network card?

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

Actually it's quite a good concept, it does work in most cases.
It also has the advantage of pulling in the latest from updates.repo


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Frank Murphy
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