On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 13:14 -0400, Tod Thomas wrote:
> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <
pocallaghan@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 08:02 -0700, Tod Thomas wrote:
> > > I've installed VirtualBox on a Win7 workstation and established a
> > > running
> > > FC14 VM. Everything was fine until I tried doing a yum upgrade and
> > > then I
> > > discovered my boot partition needed to be at least 7GB! to be able to
> > > perform the upgrade.
> >
> > That can't de right. No way does the boot partition need to be 7GB. More
> > like 500MB. Do you mean the root partition? If so, try saving space by
> > moving /var/cache/yum to a different partition and leaving a symlink in
> > its place.
> >
> > poc
> >
> >
> I typed GB but meant MB:
>
> Running rpm_check_debug
> Running Transaction Test
>
>
> Transaction Check Error:
> installing package kernel-2.6.35.12-90.fc14.i686 needs 7MB on the /boot
> filesystem
>
> Error Summary
> -------------
> Disk Requirements:
> At least 7MB more space needed on the /boot filesystem.
>
>
> /dev/sda1 49M 26M 21M 57% /boot