When user starts to use preupgrade, it downloads installer files into /boot. Then reboot the computer and begin the upgrade process.
The method will cause a problem, if /boot does not have enough spaces, preupgrade can not finish the upgrade.
Preupgrade is a tool to download netinstall files to local disk and configure the grub and calculate how many packages your system should be upgraded. So why not put the installer file to / or another bigger directory. I think that preupgrade can create a directory in root partition and put installer into it. The installer should run after reconfigure the grub.conf or grub.cfg for grub 2. I believe that that is better than files locating in /boot for the reason that root filesystem usually has more spaces.
Liang Suilong
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Liang Suilong <liangsuilong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
--On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 29 April 2010 07:51, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Because nobody has written a patch to do this yet.
> Why does the "too low /boot space to install" testcase (which is actually
> the common case when upgrading from F12 or F11) still require manually
> removing excess kernels, 6 months after this issue became initially known?
Sure, as long as you're currently running the latest kernel then I
> Preupgrade should do this automatically. After the upgrade, ALL the old
> kernels will be removed anyway, so I don't see how it hurts to remove all
> except the running one right away.
guess this makes sense. Patches very welcome.
Richard.
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