Re: kernel uninstall

[bmarcum@iglou.com (Bill Marcum)]

On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 05:05:11PM +0000, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> Debian i386 etch kernel linux-image-2.6.15.1-k7 with appropriate nvidia 
> kernel, running OK.
> 
> Also installed linux-image-2.6.16-2-k7 without proper match for X11.
> 
> Wanting to change to 2.6.17, I tried unsuccessfully to first unistall 2.6.16 
> (apt-get --purge remove), always aborted because package is in incorrect 
> state.
> 
> Neither apt-get -f install nor reinstall followed by --purge remove 
> were successful (package in incorrect state).
> 
> Could you suggest how to get rid of 2.6.16?
> 
If you aren't short on disk space you could just go ahead and install 
2.6.17.  You should get a boot menu with the newest kernel as default.


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and wrote a unix clone around it (C) by linus
	-- Somewhere in the kernel tree