I've just Dist-Upgrade to kernel 2.6.28-14.How to get rid of previous kernels?

Siggy Brentrup ubuntu at psycho.i21k.de
Thu Jul 30 17:19:17 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:03 -0700, Pastor JW wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 July 2009 12:06:37 pm Shannon McMackin wrote:

> > If you fire up synaptic, you can actually see all the kernel-related
> > packages and what can be removed...

And how do you issue why and why-not (from aptitude) queries in synaptic?
 
> Which is a much better way of doing it than to rely on a CLI command that you 
> have no idea what it does!   You may wish to keep at least the previous 
> kernel if you are sure it worked with everything you use.  It would be 
> possible to boot into that one instead to use that program if the newer 
> kernel chocked on it until you can get it all "bugfixed".

Moreover with cli commands it's much easier to give the relevant
information when you come to this list (you're supposed not to send
screenshots).

Regs
  Siggy
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