Is 200M on /boot enough for F12 *installation* (not upgrade)?

[Andre Costa]

Hi Sam,

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:24, Sam Sharpe <lists.redhat at samsharpe.net>wrote:

> 2009/11/18 Andre Costa <blueser at gmail.com>:
> > Ok, so preupgrade to F12 needs a 500M /boot. I have a 200M /boot, and
> I've
> > been performing installs instead of upgrades since F10: I reformat / and
> > /boot and leave /home alone. BTW: / and /home are LVM logical volumes.
> > Can anyone confirm this will work with F12 as well or will I need to grow
> > /boot to 500M? Release notes indicates that a separate /boot should be
> > 300M...
>
> Anecdotal evidence would suggest that you will be fine. I have yum
> upgraded my machine from F11 -> Rawhide -> F12 and I have a 200MB boot
> partition. It contains:
>
> [sam at samlap ~]$ sudo du -x /boot
> [sudo] password for sam:
> 224     /boot/efi/EFI/redhat
> 226     /boot/efi/EFI
> 228     /boot/efi
> 271     /boot/grub
> 13      /boot/lost+found
> 49539   /boot
>
> So only 50MB in use... I think you will be OK, unless Anaconda is
> enforcing some kind of rule that isn't technically necessary.
>

I hope so. I posted about this a couple of days ago, but got nothing
conclusive:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2009-November/msg00117.html

I was just looking for some confirmation from people who have been there,
done that, before I tried it myself. Thks for sharing your experience.

Anyone else? ;-)

Regards,

Andre
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