One satisfied customer with f14!

Andras Simon szajmi at gmail.com
Thu Nov 18 00:26:40 UTC 2010


On 11/18/10, Phil Meyer <pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com> wrote:

> We have noticed a couple times that if /boot is very full BEFORE
> preupgrade downloads anything, it will prompt to do a network based
> preupgrade which works well.
>
> We are now planning to always slam junk into /boot before running
> preupgrade :)
>
> The networked version should ALWAYS show as an option, in my opinion.

Isn't this the trick that is described here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpgrade#Method_2:_Trick_preupgrade_into_downloading_the_installer

I wonder how much space is needed on /boot if one goes down this path.
What goes into /boot in a network based preupgrade?

Andras


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