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Author my laptop is bloaded with old kernels? modules?
Wang Yu III

2004-01-23, 7:26 pm

When I first installed RH7.1 it was kernel-2.4.2-2. I currently got
kernel-2.4.18-24.7.x. I see lot of old stuff at my
'/lib/modules/2.4.*''..
Is it okay to delete the old stuff? Thanks.

Wang Yu III

2004-01-23, 7:26 pm

"J.O. Aho" wrote:
quote:

> Wang Yu III wrote:
>
> No, do
>
> rpm -e kernel-2.4.x
>
> where x is the version you want to uninstall. When you have uninstalled the
> kernel, the directory may still be there (only if it contains files that has
> been added after the installation of the package you removed, like nVidia
> drivers), then you can delete the directory. If you do remove the directories
> without uninstalling the kernel, then your rpm-database will contian
> information about packages that aren't anymore on your system, which isn't good.
>
> //Aho


Thanks, I'll to that 'rpm -e kernel-?'. Thanks.

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