Re: RPM kernel install problem: not enough room on partition

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On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 07:33:16PM -0400, Tom Diehl wrote:
> On Fri, 30 May 2003, Charles Curley wrote:
> 
> > I tried installing a new kernel on one machine, and got the following
> > error message:
> > 
> > [root@xxxxxx root]# rpm -ivh /var/spool/autoupdate/kernel-2.4.20-13.8.i686.rpm
> > Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
> >         installing package kernel-2.4.20-13.8 needs 2MB on the /boot filesystem
> > [root@xxxxxx root]# df /boot/
> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda1              15M   11M  3.6M  75% /boot
> > [root@xxxxxx root]#
> 
> Well lets see:
> (tigger pts2) $ ll -h *8
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         505K May 12 12:15 System.map-2.4.20-13.8
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          44K May 12 12:15 config-2.4.20-13.8
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          15K May 12 12:15 module-info-2.4.20-13.8
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3.0M May 12 12:15 vmlinux-2.4.20-13.8
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1.1M May 12 12:15 vmlinuz-2.4.20-13.8
> 
> The above alone looks like more than 3.6 megs. 

And that's with no initrd.

As I suspected, the error message is wrong; probably an example of a
program with a magic number instead of a run-time caclulation.

> Suggest deleting an old kernel if you can.

Thanks, I'll do that.

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