Re: Debian/Ubuntu kernel update question

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 You said that "Fedora does this" and I was not sure what you were 
referring to "keeping all kernels" or retaining the previously running 
kernel, or deleting all old kernels. 

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:03:43 -0400 
John Abreau <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> 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: 
> > 
> >   
> >> 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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