I used preupgrade on one of my machines, and when it was time to do the upgrade, I lacked 1.6G of free space, requiring reboot, deinstalling packages, reboot, still not enough disk space, reboot, etc. It's much easier to fix this when you're not booted in the installer, so could the stage-1 run a check how much space is needed to execute the upgrade?
preupgrade 0.9.3
preupgrade-1.0.0-1.fc10 - happened when upgrading from F9 to F10. Said was OK and then stopped in the installer forcing me to uninstaller packages.
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This still occurs with a preupgrade of F10 to F11. preupgrade provided appropriate messages concerning disk space, so I freed a sufficient amount as requested prior to reboot (actually over 50mb over the requirement) and the installer failed asking for another gigabyte of space. Why does it need this when it has already downloaded all the packages and has over 500mb of workspace to unpack them???
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