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I had my first kernel update yesterday. All went well. But now at my GRUB screen I have the choice of which kernel I can log in to. Should I ...
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    a couple questions...

    I had my first kernel update yesterday. All went well. But now at my GRUB screen I have the choice of which kernel I can log in to. Should I still have both? Should I delete the old one? Is it just sitting there eating up space?

    And for my second question, I was feeing brave and tried building an app (jahshaka) from source. I used Kompile first, and that didn't work, and I see all the files got dumped in my /tmp folder. That's file with me.

    Then I tried building it with qmake in the command line. It failed, had a bunch of errors and things. But I'll be darned if I know where any of it ended up. Would it just dispose of it, or do I have bits and pieces of jahshaka lost in my hard drive somewhere?

    Thanks!

    Oh, And if anyone got jahshaka running in Ubuntu hardy, I'd love to know how.

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    The old kernel versions are there incase the new version does not work for some reason. You can comment the entries out using
    Code:
    sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst
    but unless you are really short of hard drive space I would leave the kernels in the /boot folder alone
    Have you tried this ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jonathan183 View Post
    The old kernel versions are there incase the new version does not work for some reason. You can comment the entries out using
    Code:
    sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst
    but unless you are really short of hard drive space I would leave the kernels in the /boot folder alone
    Have you tried this ?
    Good to know about the kernel.

    That .deb is for dapper. I think there might be one for gustsy, as well. But I haven't seen one for hardy.
    DO you think the one for dapper would work?

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