Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> I ran preupgrade on an old machine (ThinkPad T20) running Fedora-8. >> The first part went OK, but when I re-booted >> it only read (or created?) 1% of install.img , and then hung. >> >> Is this a normal problem? >> If so is there are simple solution, like an addendum >> to the grub stanza for the new system? >> >> I should say, I didn't have enough space in /boot for install.img , >> which I imagine is normal, as we used to be told >> to limit /boot to 100-150MB. >> > It does not fail - it asks you if you want to continue. It does tell > you that you need a wired network connection. It will then download > the install image when the upgrade boots. You can also use a CD or > DVD with the install image. I just did it last night - F8 to F10 - > on this machine. I did indeed continue. But as I said, it only "retrieved" 1% of install.img , which struck me as odd. I would have found 0% more intelligible. I wonder if I could download install.img to / say, and give a link to this in /boot ? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
