On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 12:09 -0400, Tod Thomas wrote: Tod, Michael Chronenworth posted a simple solution to preupgrade's /boot space problem. He moved install.img (148MB) from /boot to a thumb drive. When anaconda doesn't find it in /boot, it asks for its location. Point anaconda to the thumb drive and the upgrade will proceed without a hitch. HTH --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL

On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 15:27 -0400, Tod Thomas wrote: Tod, Just passing along the tip. I've never used the pre-upgrade method myself, preferring to back up my home directory and do a from-scratch install. I can't speak as an authority about its detailed choreography. That said... As someone else has already suggested, there's at least one fairly obvious step you could take to maximize the available space in /boot before running pre-upgrade: Use 'yum erase ...' to remove any kernels you are no longer using. You really need just the latest one. That should leave you with about 180M in /boot. If that still isn't enough, face the music, back up your home directory, and do a from-scratch installation. When you do, make sure you set aside 500GB for /boot. (Upgrade demands on /boot, now and in the future, will force you to do this sooner or later.) It seems to me that after running pre-upgrade, it will probably pause or return you to a prompt where you can mv install.img to that thumb drive. If unsure, a quick check from another terminal window will tell you if it's there. Do keep a CD #1 handy as a rescue disk in case something goes wrong. Upgrading may be nice & easy, but if that's all you ever do you'll forget how to do a from-scratch installation. That's one skill you never want to lose. HTH, --Doc

On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Tod Thomas wrote: You can resize a physical volume of a volume group with the pvresize command, though this only resizes the contents and you will need to use something like fdisk or parted to resize the partition to match. However this will free up space at the end of the physical volume partition, and to make the boot partition bigger you probably want to move the start which is rather more tricky. Michael Young