[PLUG] Mint 18.0 Cinnamon 64-bit: Message 'Boot is Full'

[Tony Schlemmer]

Have you search google.com? They show how to use the Synacptic Package
Manager to remove old kernels that are not being used:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/2793/how-do-i-remove-old-kernel-versions
-to-clean-up-the-boot-menu

Tony

On Sun, 2016-11-13 at 16:39 -0800, Vedanta Teacher wrote:
> Everyone,
> 
>    I'm running a relatively new HP Pavilion desktop with:
> Mint 18.0 Cinnamon 64-bit
> Version 3.0.7
> Linux Kernel 4.4.0-47-generic
> AMD A8 CPU
> RAM 14.6
> HD 945.9GB
> 
> Yesterday it threw a message at my of: Boot is Full
> 
> I've used the default installation settings for Boot & Grub.
> 
> **
> I did a quick search on Chromium and some people recommended:
> 
> apt-get -f install
> apt-get clean
> dpkg
> 
> I searched the Mint site and some recommendations were:
> 
> Using the Synaptic Package Manager to remove old kernel
> images (but I'd need to know which ones...)
> 
> **
> Question:
> 
> I must be having a senior moment... Is there a quick easy way
> to remove the unneeded items or, just make the Boot partition larger?
> I'm no super user but I can run some simple command lines.
> 
> There are some files on this machine that I'd like to save.
> If I totally bonk things I do have a laptop running 17.3 that
> I can use.
> 
> Blessings,
> Paul W.
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