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Fedora 18 Release name voting and poll

Posted Apr 21, 2012 18:44 UTC (Sat) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
In reply to: Fedora 18 Release name voting and poll by vonbrand
Parent article: Fedora 18 Release name voting and poll

I can't upgrade because my /boot partition is too small for preupgrade to write all the packages there, and installing from a network connection always hangs. I expect that upgrading from a CD would work, tho' it feels a bit retro.

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Posted Apr 22, 2012 13:50 UTC (Sun) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935) [Link]

Preupgrade writes packages to /, not /boot.

Fedora 18 Release name voting and poll

Posted Apr 22, 2012 14:09 UTC (Sun) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75) [Link]

IIRC, it's actually in /var rather than / where the packages go, though that's not too important. What is important is that it does need space in /boot for anaconda and its stage files. There are some workarounds for lack of space mentioned in Fedora's Wiki.