/boot, excuse me?

[Neal Becker]

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
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error: installing package kernel-2.6.15-1.1909_FC5 needs 2MB on the /boot 
filesystem
error: installing package nscd-2.3.90-36 needs 2MB on the /boot filesystem
error: installing package octave-2.9.4-6.fc5 needs 2MB on the /boot filesystem
error: installing package numpy-0.9.4-1.fc5 needs 2MB on the /boot filesystem
error: installing package eclipse-ecj-3.1.2-1jpp_3fc needs 2MB on the /boot 
filesystem
error: installing package kernel-doc-2.6.15-1.1909_FC5 needs 2MB on the /boot 
filesystem
error: installing package eclipse-rcp-3.1.2-1jpp_3fc needs 2MB on the /boot 
filesystem
error: installing package python-sqlite2-2.1.3-2.fc5 needs 2MB on the /boot 
filesystem
[etc, etc...]