F12 work around for out of space on /boot for preupgrade?

Steven Stern subscribed-lists at sterndata.com
Wed Nov 18 16:51:06 UTC 2009


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On 11/18/2009 10:07 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 11/18/2009 09:32 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
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>> I deleted the old kernels and freed up space in /boot. Now, when I
>> reboot after preupgrade, it tells me I'm still 1.1 MiB short.
>>
>> I don't see anything else I can delete and I suspect resizing /boot
>> would be a real pain.
>>
>> There is an upgrade directory on /boot.  Can I move the upgrade
>> directory to another partition and link them?  That is, will this work?
>>
>>    cd /boot
>>    mv upgrade /tmp/upgrade
>>    ln -s /tmp/upgrade upgrade
> 
> Try
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpgrade#Not_enough_space_in_.2Fboot
> 
> Rahul
> 

Thanks. I'll give it a shot.  I'm doing another full backup of the
system before trying anything. <smile>

- -- 

  Steve
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