Description of problem: Fedora's preupgrade tool utilizes /boot utilizes over 100MB of space, and dutifully makes sure /boot can hold the preupgrade package. However, preupgrade fails to take into account how much space the to-be-installed kernel will take, which results in anaconda complaining that "/boot needs 16MB more space" to continue the installation Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 11 preupgrade preupgrade-1.1.2-1.fc11.noarch.rpm How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Using a computer with a 200MB /boot (Fedora standard), run preupgrade when there are old kernels still installed from previous updates 2. 3. Actual results: Preupgrade installs itself, resulting in an anaconda error that has to be manually fixed. Expected results: Preupgrade realizes that /boot is too small, and either removes old kernels, warns the user, or similar. Additional info:
preupgrade-1.1.3, in updates-testing, checks the size of /boot. Please test it and provide feedback here: F11: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-11547 F10: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-11530 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 530541 ***