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autek
09-24-2006, 09:20 AM
How do you safely remove old, unused kernels ?? I've already re-done the grub menu list, but I want to remove them from my system. Thanks

Ed

bluesdog
09-24-2006, 12:42 PM
apt-get remove --purge whatever

or dpkg --purge whatever

jjmac
10-12-2006, 07:19 AM
apt-get remove --purge whatever

or dpkg --purge whatever

Or just dpkg -P <package>

If it's a custom kernel, that was installed bypassing the package system. Just nuke it with 'rm'


jm