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wilburpan
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 Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 12:50 pm Post subject: How to get rid of 2.4 kernel? |
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I just realized that since I've been trying the 2.5-2.6 kernels I've only used the 2.4 kernel twice in the last three months, and that the last time I used it was at least 8 weeks ago. I'm now tempted to just unmerge gentoo-sources, but had a few questions before clearing all the 2.4 kernel stuff off of my system:
1. Here's a list of the things that I think I can get rid of after unmerging the 2.4 kernel:
| Code: | /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4
/etc/modules.autoload (symlink that points to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4)
/lib/modules/2.4.*
/usr/src/linux-2.4.* |
Is there anything else that I can dump?
2. Do I need to redirect /etc/modules.autoload to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6?
3. In /usr/src, there's a symlink from /usr/src/linux to the most recent version of the 2.4 kernel directory. /usr/src/linux-beta points to my 2.6 kernel directory. Should I redirect /usr/src/linux to my 2.6 kernel directory, or should I just get rid of all of the symlinks?
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AlterEgo
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 7:12 pm Post subject: Re: How to get rid of 2.4 kernel? |
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| wilburpan wrote: |
/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4
/etc/modules.autoload (symlink that points to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4)
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You'd better leave those. They are part of the baselayout, and the gain of removing them is minimal.
For the rest I'd answer 'yes' to the other suggestions you make. |
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wilburpan
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 7:32 pm Post subject: Re: How to get rid of 2.4 kernel? |
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| AlterEgo wrote: | | For the rest I'd answer 'yes' to the other suggestions you make. |
Thanks for the response.
Does that include dumping the /usr/src/linux and /usr/src/linux-beta symlinks?
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dizzogg
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why not just leave a working 2.4 kernel around? You know, just in case....  |
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AlterEgo
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 8:07 pm Post subject: Re: How to get rid of 2.4 kernel? |
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| wilburpan wrote: | | AlterEgo wrote: | | For the rest I'd answer 'yes' to the other suggestions you make. |
Thanks for the response.
Does that include dumping the /usr/src/linux and /usr/src/linux-beta symlinks? |
Keep a /usr/src/linux pointed to the kernel you actually use. Many software packages need it. The linux-beta symlink can be removed; I never used it anyway (dual-kernel), |
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wilburpan
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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| dizzogg wrote: | | why not just leave a working 2.4 kernel around? You know, just in case.... |
That's why I didn't get rid of it for the past three months.  Now I'm convinced that I don't need it, since "just in case" should have happened in the past 8 weeks if it was going to happen. Besides, now I've compiled so many 2.5.xx and 2.6.xx kernels that rebuilding a 2.4 kernel should be relatively easy, if I have to. 
Actually, the event that triggered this question was when gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r6 came out, and I was about to copy over my old .config file and start compiling when I asked myself, "Why are you even bothering to install a package that you haven't used in 8 weeks?"
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