On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 00:56 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:39:44 -0500 > Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > > > You have run out of space before getting to the anaconda kernel and > > initrd. Check /boot for a preupgrade directory. It needs to copy a few > > things into it (like the anaconda kernel and initrd, but also a > > kickstart file, and some other things). If there is no room for the > > necessary items, you are out of luck. > > That's the problem. I'm 1.5mb short, according to preupgrade. You can remove a program that takes up little space (~1.5Mb) so it won't be upgraded, saving space for finishing your upgrade. Then you install it again...does it make sense? Germán. > > > > Have you tried Germán's suggestion of removing unneeded F11 kernels? > > I have removed all but one F11 kernel (rpm -e kernel-whatever-whatever) so > there's only one left. And as I said before, I don't see where I can remove > anything else to gain that 1.5mb and still have a kernel that my computer can > boot. > > > The Achilles's heel of preupgrade is the amount of free space in your > > /boot partition. > > Indeed. I really don't get it, because I initially formatted that computer > with the F10 rawhide a month or so before the F10 release. And I used the > default disk partitioning that the installer suggested. > Kinda ironic, since > > > Can you resize your > > partitions such that /boot has more space? > > I have no idea how to do that. Again, I just used the default F10 > partitioning scheme and it's seemed to be working fine up to this point. > > > -- > MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com > -- Germán A. Racca National Institute for Space Research (INPE) São José dos Campos - SP - Brasil http://gracca.wordpress.com http://tinyurl.com/SkyTux -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
