[mythtv-users] upgrade Fedora 9 to 12?

Udo van den Heuvel udovdh at xs4all.nl
Tue Feb 16 18:44:33 UTC 2010


On 2010-02-16 19:35, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:52 AM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
> ...
>> F12 wants about 300Meg for /boot. I used 50 iirc on F6 through F8 and 75 Meg
>> for F10. On this desktop (F12) I dropped /boot. It was easier all round.
> 
> nb: the reason for the relatively hefty /boot is to make Fedora's
> pre-upgrade utility viable. pre-upgrade needs enough space to stash an
> anaconda image that runs about 175MB or so, iirc, so that plus room
> for a few kernels gets you the suggested /boot minimum of 300MB.

Of course there's no room elsewhere on the system. I can explain why
this choice is absurd, especially when upgrading.


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