Just had a bad experience with preupgrade. Had a phenom II x64 machine that had Fedora 11 freshly installed with default settengs a few weeks before 12 came out. Finally decided to try the upgrade to see how it would work, but could have done a clean install if it didn't work.
Preupgraded started find downloading files, but eventually came up with a message that it needed more space on /boot. Removed all but latest kernel, and memtest and eventually needed to remove the splash graphic to get it to work, but fianllly got enough space. So the preupgrade to finish the process to reboot. Then when it rebooted, there was a message that it needed more space, but there was nothing on the /boot to be removed. I was able to boot back to the Fedora 11 kernel, and then tried a last resort option. Took the initrd in the upgrade directory, and first gunziped it, and then used lzma on it. The resuld was about 500M smaller size, and then was able to reboot. This then alllowed the preupgrade boot to work, and the system has now upgraded. It would have been nicer to get a message to either no do a preupgrade, or to have a way to resize the systems. Would have tired partimage, but it doesn't resize lvm, so that would be another problem. +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mi...@kuentos.guam.net mailto:msetze...@gmail.com http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) bo...@home CREDITS SETI 9,096,112.043433 | EINSTEIN 3,519,158.940851 ROSETTA 1,594,890.066776 | ABC 8,703.320170 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
