/boot, excuse me?

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 5 15:39:28 PST 2006


On Sunday 05 February 2006 6:22 pm, Pascal Bleser wrote:
> Neal Becker wrote:
> > Just tried do so smart upgrade, and all packages failed, complaining that
> > they needed 2MB space on /boot.  My /boot was full.  I suspect smart has
> > no business trying to use /boot for anything.
>
> Sure, kernel packages install a kernel image (vmlinuz) into /boot, at least
> for most distros.
>
> cheers

Then the message was misleading.  It complained about needed space on /boot 
for EACH package - not just the kernel packages.  This was a large update 
with one kernel update + lots of other packages.



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