Sorry， I sent a blank mail to list. When user starts to use preupgrade, it downloads installer files into /boot. Then reboot the computer and begin the upgrade process.
The method will cause a problem, if /boot does not have enough spaces, preupgrade can not finish the upgrade. Preupgrade is a tool to download netinstall files to local disk and configure the grub and calculate how many packages your system should be upgraded. So why not put the installer file to / or another bigger directory. I think that preupgrade can create a directory in root partition and put installer into it. The installer should run after reconfigure the grub.conf or grub.cfg for grub 2. I believe that that is better than files locating in /boot for the reason that root filesystem usually has more spaces. Liang Suilong On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Liang Suilong <liangsuil...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsi...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On 29 April 2010 07:51, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kof...@chello.at> wrote: >> > Why does the "too low /boot space to install" testcase (which is >> actually >> > the common case when upgrading from F12 or F11) still require manually >> > removing excess kernels, 6 months after this issue became initially >> known? >> >> Because nobody has written a patch to do this yet. >> >> > Preupgrade should do this automatically. After the upgrade, ALL the old >> > kernels will be removed anyway, so I don't see how it hurts to remove >> all >> > except the running one right away. >> >> Sure, as long as you're currently running the latest kernel then I >> guess this makes sense. Patches very welcome. >> >> Richard. >> -- >> devel mailing list >> devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >> > > > > -- > Fedora && Debian User, former Ubuntu User > My Page: http://www.liangsuilong.info > Fedora Project Contributor -- Packager && Ambassador > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Liangsuilong > -- Fedora && Debian User, former Ubuntu User My Page: http://www.liangsuilong.info Fedora Project Contributor -- Packager && Ambassador https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Liangsuilong
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