Very BAD preupgrade experience.

Timothy Murphy gayleard at eircom.net
Wed Dec 30 21:15:52 UTC 2009


Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:

> It's too late now, but Michael Chronenworth posted a much simpler
> solution to preupgrade's /boot space problem. He moved install.img
> from /boot to a thumb drive. When anaconda doesn't find it in /boot, it
> asks for its location. Point anaconda to the thumb drive and the upgrade
> will proceed without a hitch.

I assumed install.img had to be in /boot , for some reason.
If it doesn't have to be there, it seems a crazy decision
to try to install a file in a partition that manifestly won't hold it
in many, if not most, cases.

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