On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote: > On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 06:38:12 pm Scott Robbins wrote: >> >> Boot has to be huge in Fedora for the preupgrade to have a chance of >> working--having given up on it several releases ago, I have no idea if >> it's been improved or not. > > This is obviously straying from the topicality of this list, but yes the > mechanism has been improved at least between F13 and F14, as I > did do a preupgrade on my development/testing box, which will likely > go to CentOS 6 or SL6 some time RSN. IIRC, Fedora's pre-upgrade was failing because "/boot"'s default size is/was 200MB and the workaround was to clear out some space by keeping just one kernel and removing the "hidden space" allocated to root on "/boot". We have to hope that this'll be taken into account and "/boot"'s default set larger if pre-upgrade's coming to CentOS 6. (Would pre-upgrade be to go from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7?!)