Cleaning up the list of o/s in a dual boot

Jean Hollis Weber jean-ooo at taming-openoffice-org.com
Thu Jun 15 10:29:19 UTC 2006


Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Here is a better idea... let's also remove all the 
> kernel packages that you don't need. [...]
> You can remove the kernel with:
> 
> sudo aptitude remove linux-image-2.6.12-10-386
> 
> The reason for this (besides just cleaning up /boot/) is that next time 
> you upgrade the kernel, Ubuntu will add those entries to menu.lst again. 
> So it's better to just remove them.

Cool! Done. Thank you for taking the time to write such a 
detailed explanation. I really appreciate it.

Cheers, Jean




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