excessive /boot entries

[Derek Broughton]

Tommy Trussell wrote:

> but recently upgraded a system from 
> Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10, and the upgrade process removed lots of cruft
> including old kernels.
> 
> Another way to do the same thing is to use the autoremove command in
> the package manager...
> 
> open a terminal and type
> 
> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get autoremove
> 
> (Synaptic has a similar feature, but I don't know about the KDE
> equivalent.)
 
None of them will automatically remove kernels, unless you've explicitly
modified /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove
-- 
derek