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From: wimpunk on 26 Feb 2010 11:28
On 2010-02-26, Ant <ant(a)zimage.comANT> wrote:
> On 2/25/2010 4:16 PM PT, Don Piven typed:
>
>>> My very old Debian/Linux workstation/desktop box (first installed it
>>> on 9/24/2004 and kept it updated daily and only had one reinstall
>>> (accidently ran fsck without unmounting a few years ago) -- still
>>> amazing that it runs today) is unable to install the latest Kernel
>>> (v2.6.32) Debian package due to free limited disk space in / (actually
>>> /boot) partition:
>>>
>
>
>> If you're just looking to install Lenny on top of whatever you have now,
>> you should be able to do that via APT (apt-get dist-upgrade), unless
>> you're running Woody or something. As a last resort, you could move the
>> stuff in your /others tree elsewhere on your system, do a cold system
>> installation on /dev/hda12, and hack your GRUB or LILO config to let you
>> boot from either partition.
>
> No, just upgrading the Kernel (2.6.32). I am still using 2.6.30 (uname
> -a showed "Linux ANTian 2.6.30-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Dec 4 00:53:20 UTC 2009
> i686 GNU/Linux").

I ran into the same problem. I fixed it by moving the current version
to a bootable USB stick and moving them back after the upgrade. It is
not very nice but it worked for me.

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