Old RH8 Kernel Uninstall Q

[David A. Sinck]

The kernels are made so you can have multiple ones on the system
without upgrading.  Just -i it:

rpm -ivh kernel-newer

To remove older kernels that are unwanted, 'erase' them:

rpm -e kernel-old

You may or may not have to edit grub.conf, but that's easy.  


\_ SMTP quoth Bart Garst on 3/20/2003 08:50 as having spake thusly:
\_
\_ I have a question. How are you able to save the previous kernel versions? I
\_ do my updates with
\_ # rpm -Uvh kernel...
\_ and it doesn't save the older version (Makes for a real pain when the rpm
\_ install crashes).
\_ 
\_ Bart
\_ 
\_ 
\_ >>>
\_ I've been using RHN to keep my errata updated. Very smartly, the kernel
\_ updates preserve the previous kernels. Well, I'm starting to get a
\_ collection of them and I'm sure the kernels are starting to hog
\_ disk-space - or are they? Here's what I have:
\_ 
\_ rpm -q kernel
\_ kernel-2.4.18-14
\_ kernel-2.4.18-19.8.0
\_ kernel-2.4.18-26.8.0
\_ 
\_ There's yet another update available that I've yet to download. Their
\_ manual isn't clear on how to remove the old kernels and if the technique
\_ automatically updates Grub or if I have to manually edit the config
\_ file. Anyone mess with this?
\_ 
\_ Cheers,
\_ Mike
\_ 
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