how to dwindle down the number of kernels in menu.lst to two

[Derek Broughton]

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