On 08/20/2010 11:30 AM, Jon Ingason wrote:
Hi,
Have to computer where I run Fedora. One is i686 (Pentium III
(Coppermine) 800 MHz), 512 Mbytes memory and the other one is x86_64
(AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ 1800 MHz, 2 Gbytes
memory. I had installed F12 on both of them. The /boot (ext4) is 200
Mbytes on both computer. I decided to do preupgrade on both (F12 ->
F13). Since the /boot is only 200 Mbytes I followed the instructions
published on Fedora wiki "How to use PreUpgrade"
(
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpgrade).
The preupgrade of the i686 went fine. It only did do the first step so
when I rebooted the computer I only needed to configure the network as
stated in the wiki. When I tried to preupgrade the x86_64 using same
method as with the i686 the /boot got full and the preupgrade program
crashed.
I have goggled and not found this problem. Have other same problem with
x86_64 or is there other way to do this without resizing /boot?
PS The rest of the disk is LVM on both computers.
I have found the easiest way to
upgrade is get the latest
"Fedora-release" and "Fedora-release-notes" from the F13 mirrors and
"rpm -Uvh" both rpm's into F12 , then do a "yum clean all" and
lastly
"yum upgrade" from command line .
It will replace all your F12 rpm's with F13 rpm's and then you Reboot
your computer into a F13 kernel, and the LAST thing you have to do is "
rpm -qa | grep kernel" that will display all the F12 kernels left
behind, you do a "yum remove" any kernels left behind. If I use the
command line and Copy and Paste those old F12 kernels at "yum remove"
it makes it easier.
And very lastly you got a Brand Spanking new F13 to boot from.
I have done a lot of F12 > F13 boxes that way without any problems.
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