How much space does preupgrade require in /boot/upgrade?

[jimwrightbe]

Hi all,

I was impressed to be asked on Fedora 10 if I want to upgrade to Fedora 11 but the first time I tried I had this error:

Not enough space in /boot/upgrade to download install.img.

My boot partition is 99MB and AFAIK that is not unusual so I tried tidying up a bit, uninstalling all except 2 kernels, and now have about 80MB for whatever needs to be downloaded in /boot/upgrade. But I get the same error.

I can fix this by using wired instead of wireless networking but I want to know for planning purposes (next time I create a boot partition) how much space is required?

Can anyone help?

BTW:

$ ls -l /boot/upgrade
total 21594
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18985802 2009-06-03 00:02 initrd.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3035056 2009-06-03 00:02 vmlinuz

Should I delete these? It looks like they might be left over from last time but I assume preupgrade knows what is junk and what isn't.

Jim Wright

[scottro]

I think right now it requires 200 MB. I think I made mine 300, figuring it will probably require more each time. That's somewhere in some release notes, but I have no idea where. If I remember correctly, it was relatively easy to find.

[jimwrightbe]

Thanks for your quick response. Who needs docs? ;-).

BTW I haven't found it yet. I did find this which may need reviewing:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/instal...mmend-x86.html

[scottro]

True, it does. (need reviewing). Let's blame Rahul, which will be incredibly ungracious of us, as much as he does for the user community.



All kidding aside, he's usually really quick on those things, (and he does it almost single-handedly).

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

Reported at

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524402

PS: Documentation team isn't certainly just me. There are quite a few active contributors. I mostly work on just the release notes

[scottro]

Wow, 500 MBs.

I see I was off by a few hundred.

Thank you for reporting the bug.

[wneumann]

For how many upgrades will the "highly recommended 500M" for fc12 last? It is certainly overkill for fc11.

I successfully used preupgrade to upgrade several machines to FC11. Every one of them had a /boot of 190M (the size automatically chosen by a previous fresh install of Fedora -- I think version 9).