FC3 to FC5 upgrade - fails on transaction disk space

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Sun May 28 12:19:28 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 07:46 -0400, B Wooster wrote:
> I've a FC3 system, and am trying to go through the "upgrade" option on
> the FC5 installer.
> 
> I've 2.3G free on root (/), and 9.3G used, which I thought would be
> enough, but 10 minutes into the upgrade, after copying image to disk,
> and then something about transaction log, it errors out.
> 
> Any way to fix this? Can I make the upgrade use some other partition
> for temp space? I've /tmp in its own partition, has 3.5G free.
> 
> I think the error message went like this:
> There was an error running your transaction, for the following
> reason(s): insufficient disk space.

Try removing all of the openoffice packages, do the upgrade, then
reinstall openoffice. It takes a *huge* amount of disk space.

Paul.





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