Ade wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Being still somewhat of a newbie I don't want to mess with the operating
> system too much as yet. Is there a method to cleaning up the prior versions
> that appear on in /boot/grub/menu.lst or is it simply a case of deleting the
> files from /boot and fixing the menu file.

Command `uname -a` would tell you which kernel version you are using.

Then `dpkg -l | grep linux-image` to list all installed kernels.

Use `dpkg -r kernel_name-version` to remove those not matching
`uname -a`.

On the other hand, are you that short of disk space? If you
don't know what you would be doing, let it be... let it be...

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* Ade :
> Hi,
>
> Being still somewhat of a newbie I don't want to mess with the operating
> system too much as yet. Is there a method to cleaning up the prior versions
> that appear on in /boot/grub/menu.lst or is it simply a case of deleting the
> files from /boot and fixing the menu file.
>
> I have the following in my boot directory as an example
SNIP
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ade
>
>

You can use synaptic to completely remove the kernels you don't want.
Please check and double check :-)

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On Thu, 01 May 2008 11:52:24 +0000, Ade wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Being still somewhat of a newbie I don't want to mess with the operating
> system too much as yet. Is there a method to cleaning up the prior versions
> that appear on in /boot/grub/menu.lst or is it simply a case of deleting the
> files from /boot and fixing the menu file.

You can edit the menu.lst to remove the older entries, make a backup of
it first. Unless you are running low on disk space leave the kernel and
the ramdisk images alone.

* Meat Plow :
> On Thu, 01 May 2008 11:52:24 +0000, Ade wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Being still somewhat of a newbie I don't want to mess with the operating
>> system too much as yet. Is there a method to cleaning up the prior versions
>> that appear on in /boot/grub/menu.lst or is it simply a case of deleting the
>> files from /boot and fixing the menu file.
>
> You can edit the menu.lst to remove the older entries, make a backup of
> it first. Unless you are running low on disk space leave the kernel and
> the ramdisk images alone.

Whenever update-grub is called, it will regenerate 'menu.lst'. This
occurs whenever a new kernel image is installed. Look for the following
block in 'menu.lst', make appropriate changes, then run update-grub.

## controls how many kernels should be put into the menu.lst
## only counts the first occurence of a kernel, not the
## alternative kernel options
## e.g. howmany=all
## howmany=7
# howmany=all

NOTE: It is important that you leave the comment characters (#) intact
since this particular option is parsed by update-grub and not by GRUB
itself.

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