On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 06:40:09PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (03/11/06 10:06), Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > You'd be well advised to use the package management system to remove the > > > kernels. Personally, I use aptitude. Having checked which is your > > > running kernel, go into aptitude, and mark for removal those you want > > > rid of. If you mark the with '_' both the package and the configuration > > > files are purged. > > > > > > > I did this on my server using aptitude and it didn't work. I '_' purged > > two kernels that had been install with aptitude but it left the actual > > kernels and initrds and configs in /boot. I had to rm them manually. > > > > hunh. I better look into that more as I know that's not proper behavior. > > That's not something I've ever experienced. You didn't install these > kernels manually using 'dpkg -i' by any chance?
Would that matter? Aptitude, synaptic, apt-get ... eventually call dpkg anyway. IOW I think its dpkg that knows about the config files. -- Chris. ====== " ... the official version cannot be abandoned because the implication of rejecting it is far too disturbing: that we are subject to a government conspiracy of `X-Files' proportions and insidiousness." Letter to the LA Times Magazine, September 18, 2005. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]