Upgrading with preupgrade: flawless!

[Clark Martin]

Marcel Rieux wrote:
> Some people here said that, despite Fedora suggesting not to upgrade
> with yum, they did so and had good results. If this is the way to
> upgrade with yum:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq#Instructions_to_upgrade_using_yum
> 
> I can tell you that upgrading with preupgrade from Fedora 11 to 12 is
> much simpler. Here's what I did, following the instructions:
> 
> 1) Do a back-up, just in case.
> 
> 2) In gnome-terminal:
> 
> su
> yum update
> preupgrade
> 
> One, two, ? clicks
> 
> 3) Go for a long bath.
> 
> 4) Reboot the computer. The downloaded packages will install. So...
> 
> 5) Eat supper
> 
> 6) The computer will reboot automatically at the end and voilà!
> 
> Everything works.

OR NOT!

I'm still in the middle up running preupgrade.  But it was griping about 
not enough space in the /boot partition.  I tried ripping out old 
kernels, etc.  Still not enough space.