On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 03:21:00PM -0600, Nate Straz wrote: > > The difference is that Florin's kernel is managed by the package manager > and yours is not. After a few kernel upgrades Florin can `dpkg -r > kernel-image-$VER` and have a clean system. You'll have to walk around > and remove the kernel, system map, and modules by hand. rm -rf /lib/modules/2.6.x /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.x /boot/System.map-2.6.x /boot/initrd-2.6.x Much safer than trusting debian to mess with it ;) > > What's the point of using a distro with a package manager if you're just > going to dirty the system with unpackaged files? I don't consider it dirty, it's two locations, they aren't mixed with other packages files, and I know nothing depends on them. Does your version automatically update grub.conf? 'make install' does. > Nate -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203