Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-30 Thread Alan Evans
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: > I do have, so I continued; and then after finally >>> downloading all the packages (much time) and rebooting it apparently >>> couldn't find the driver for my network card. Bother. > > What network card? The one on my motherboard. Lspci tells

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 13:16 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Alan Evans wrote: > > > Preupgrade is complaining that I don't have enough space in > > /boot/upgrade. How much space is needed? Preupgrade is not telling me. > > It *did* tell me that I could continue if I had a wired network > > connecti

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
Jonathan Underwood wrote: >> Am I alone in thinking that preupgrade was a nice idea >> which has never worked perfectly, and which should be quietly dropped? > > preupgrade is actively maintained and developed by some of the > smartest contributors to Fedora, so I am certain that if you file bug

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/10 14:07, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 13:43 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: >> preupgrade is actively maintained and developed by some of the >> smartest contributors to Fedora, so I am certain that if you file bug >> reports about how it's not worked for you they will get fixed. >

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-30 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 13:43 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > preupgrade is actively maintained and developed by some of the > smartest contributors to Fedora, so I am certain that if you file bug > reports about how it's not worked for you they will get fixed. It strike me that it will be used b

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-30 Thread Jonathan Underwood
On 30 May 2010 13:16, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Alan Evans wrote: > >> Preupgrade is complaining that I don't have enough space in >> /boot/upgrade. How much space is needed? Preupgrade is not telling me. >> It *did* tell me that I could continue if I had a wired network >> connection. I do have, so

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/10 13:16, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Alan Evans wrote: > >> Preupgrade is complaining that I don't have enough space in >> /boot/upgrade. How much space is needed? For F13 /boot = 500mb Preupgrade is not telling me. >> It *did* tell me that I could continue if I had a wired network >> con

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
Alan Evans wrote: > Preupgrade is complaining that I don't have enough space in > /boot/upgrade. How much space is needed? Preupgrade is not telling me. > It *did* tell me that I could continue if I had a wired network > connection. I do have, so I continued; and then after finally > downloading a

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-30 Thread Jussi Lehtola
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 18:10 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 01:22 +0300, Jussi Lehtola wrote: > > I'm just wondering why we don't have a tool for yum upgrades that > > downloads the packages and after OK by the user drops down to single > > user mode and installs them, at

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-29 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 05/29/2010 02:57 PM, Alan Evans wrote: > I thought gparted couldn't get anywhere near a LVM. Has that changed? > Oh, actually I always ignore LVM setup and create my own partitions. I like being able to use gparted :] -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or cha

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-29 Thread Łukasz Jagiełło
2010/5/29 Colin J Thomson : > FYI, preupgrade does work with the default 200meg  /boot partition, I did it > here on this small raid system, no LVM all ext4, F12 > F13.. More info here: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=573451 Everything working just remove all unused kernels - left

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 01:22 +0300, Jussi Lehtola wrote: > I'm just wondering why we don't have a tool for yum upgrades that > downloads the packages and after OK by the user drops down to single > user mode and installs them, at the end trying a reboot once the > operation is complete.. It's calle

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-29 Thread Colin J Thomson
On Saturday 29 May 2010 22:55:32 Alan Evans wrote: > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Colin J Thomson > > wrote: > > FYI, preupgrade does work with the default 200meg /boot partition, I did > > it here on this small raid system, no LVM all ext4, F12 > F13.. More > > info here: > > > > https://b

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-29 Thread Jussi Lehtola
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 14:55 -0700, Alan Evans wrote: > Apparently, my default 200MB fell a bit short: > > $ df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/vg_studio-lv_root > 868G 266G 558G 33% / > tmpfs 4.0G 1000K 4.0G 1% /d

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-29 Thread Alan Evans
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: > It told me the same thing. At that point, I booted from a live CD, > installed gparted and resized the boot partition to take 500M (took > space from swap, which was 2G). Then preupgrade succeeded perfectly and > I'm running F13 right now.

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-29 Thread Alan Evans
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Colin J Thomson wrote: > FYI, preupgrade does work with the default 200meg  /boot partition, I did it > here on this small raid system, no LVM all ext4, F12 > F13.. More info here: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=573451 > > NOTE.. > I guess your mil

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-29 Thread Colin J Thomson
On Saturday 29 May 2010 22:05:12 Konstantin Svist wrote: > On 05/29/2010 11:39 AM, Alan Evans wrote: > > Preupgrade is complaining that I don't have enough space in > > /boot/upgrade. How much space is needed? Preupgrade is not telling me. > > It *did* tell me that I could continue if I had a wired

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Konstantin Svist writes: On 05/29/2010 11:39 AM, Alan Evans wrote: Preupgrade is complaining that I don't have enough space in /boot/upgrade. How much space is needed? Preupgrade is not telling me. It *did* tell me that I could continue if I had a wired network connection. I do have, so I conti

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-29 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 05/29/2010 11:39 AM, Alan Evans wrote: > Preupgrade is complaining that I don't have enough space in > /boot/upgrade. How much space is needed? Preupgrade is not telling me. > It *did* tell me that I could continue if I had a wired network > connection. I do have, so I continued; and then after

preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-29 Thread Alan Evans
Preupgrade is complaining that I don't have enough space in /boot/upgrade. How much space is needed? Preupgrade is not telling me. It *did* tell me that I could continue if I had a wired network connection. I do have, so I continued; and then after finally downloading all the packages (much time) a