re: not able to purge a kernel

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>]

I think it would have purged successfully if you had been running 2.6.15 
at the time of the attempted purge.  I think you were running 2.6.16 and 
debian doesn't like to purge a running kernel.  Suggestion would be to 
comment out the kernel line down toward the bottom of menu.lst for kernel 
2.6.16 and reboot the computer and see if you get kernel 2.6.15 up you can 
do uname -ar to find out or look at the screen as it comes up in the very 
beginning.  Then try that purge again.