removing old kernels

Rahul Sundaram rahulsundaram at gmail.com
Thu Nov 18 22:13:29 UTC 2004


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:08:09 -0500, Mark Bradford
<bra9ford at connecttime.net> wrote:
> I'm a linux newbie and currently have three kernels installed in FC2.
> The issue is that the oldest I installed with rpm, the next with apt and
> the most current, 2.6.9 using up2date.  I tried to remove the oldest
> with rpm -e... but it won't uninstall because rpm thinks there is no
> other kernel present on the system.  How do I backtrack and clean up my
> mess?
> 
> Mark
> 

regardless of the method using to install the kernel including rpm,
yum or up2date, all of them are managed through rpm

so what does the output of 

rpm -qa | grep kernel give you?

-- 
Regards,
Rahul Sundaram




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