F12 upgrade needs more space for /mnt/sysimage/boot

[Frank Cox]

On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:27:22 -0500
Kevin J. Cummings wrote:

> I stared at the error for almost 3 minutes before I realized that it was
> allowing me the option to do the download at boot time and continued on
> to the package download.

It doesn't for me.  I have exactly this problem trying to run preupgrade on my
Acer Aspire One.  It goes through the whole production, downloads everything
and at the end it tells me that I need 1.5mb more space in /boot.  My only
options at that point are "check again" and "quit".  If I quit, it's game
over.  Running preupgrade after that tells me that everything is ready,
reboot.  If I do so, grub takes me right back into Fedora 11.  The only entry
in grub.conf is the single kernel that I have left on that machine; there's
nothing else that I can see that I could remove from /boot to gain 1.5mb.

I can go through the whole (multi-hour) process again by 

rm -fr /var/cache/yum/preupgrade*

Then preupgrade will ask me if I want to start upgrading and go through the
whole process again, up to where it tells me that I am 1.5mb short of space
in /boot and "check again" or "quit".

I have done this three times today with exactly the same result.  I read
someone here stating that a wired connection requires less space in /boot for
some reason, so I just finished running the process on a wired connection to my
Acer Aspire One (the previous two attempts were on the wireless connection),
but I got exactly the same result.

I'm really at a loss for where to go from here in order to upgrade that machine
to Fedora 12.  I can't even download a netboot disk and upgrade from that
because that machine has no drives and setting up a Fedora Live image on a USB
flash drive won't allow me to run an upgrade (as far as I'm aware, anyway).

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