how to dwindle down the number of kernels in menu.lst to two
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Mon Oct 13 15:47:22 UTC 2008
John DeCarlo wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2008-10-10, Karl Larsen wrote:
>> > If you read your file /boot/grub/menu.lst you will find a line that
>> > tells grub how many kernel's to save. Make that 2 and you will be
>> > happy.
>>
>> That doesn't remove the potentially crufty old kernel packages, does
>> it?
>>
>
> Yes, it does. Or at least it does for me.
No - all the kernel packages stay until you purge them, unless you
modify /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove. Modifying menu.lst can't effect
the number of kernel packages you have.
--
derek
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