Re: Debian/Ubuntu kernel update question

["John Abreau-2" <user=184@nabble.blu.org>]

 I said that Fedora does this, and that I don't know whether Ubuntu does. 
In what way is that contradicting myself? 


Jerry Feldman wrote: 
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:17:30 -0400 
> "John Abreau" <[hidden email]> wrote: 
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>> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>> 
>>     
>>> Is there a setting that can limit the number of installed kernels. I 
>>> think that most people would want only the current kernel, and the 
>>> previous kernel. 
>>>       
>> I don't know about Ubuntu, but I've noticed recently that Fedora does this; 
>> after a yum update that updates the kernel, it apparently deletes all kernels 
>> except the new one and the currently-running one. 
>>     
> 
> You contradict yourself. I know that SuSE deletes the old kernels too, 
> and SuSE has a utility for maintaining GRUB. But, my issue was very 
> specific. On Ubuntu/Debian it appears that all prior kernels are 
> retained. 
> 
> It would be nice for any distro to have a configurable option. I 
> prefer at least 1 prior kernel as a backup, with 2 being pretty much 
> the most that most people would want.   
> 
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