FESCO ticket#270 - preupgrade and F-12

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Nov 13 04:27:28 UTC 2009


Toshio Kuratomi (a.badger at gmail.com) said: 
> > There are definitely workarounds available, but none that meet the
> > criteria for preupgrade as an effortless upgrade option.
> 
> So I'm a bit confused by what is so hard here.  preupgrade starts up,
> finds it can't store stage2, and then tells you that you'll need to have a
> wired connection to the internet if you want to use it.  So you have to
> download stage2 when you reboot and you have to cart your laptop over to the
> router to plug it in while it does so... it's not like I'm going to be using
> it for work while anaconda is running....

Basically, the case where it fails is when there's enough space to download
stage2, but not enough space left after downloading stage2 to do the
upgrade.

Bill




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