[PLUG] Removing previous kernels

[Steve Bonds]

On 6 Dec 2002, Dirk Ouellette hapibeli-at-attbi.com |PDX Linux| wrote:

> I've upgraded the kernels in RedHat 8.0 . Is it possible or necessary
> to remove the previous kernels as I use the newest upgraded kernel. If
> so how do I safely remove said kernels from /dev/hda1 that they're
> sitting on? In recent upgrade attempts I'm told that there isn't space
> available on that partition.I haven't installed the kernel debug or
> doc pkgs. I don't really need those for home desktop , do I?

Dirk:

If those kernels aren't in your LILO configuration any more there should
be no problems removing them.

I generally just "rm" the files out of /boot to avoid having RPM do
something stupid and remove a file I want to keep.

  -- Steve