[sf-lug] NEED INFO ABOUT BOOT SECTOR, SPACE LIMITS

[Tom Turner]

Using Synaptic to remove old Linux kernels:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/2793/how-do-i-remove-old-kernel-versions-to-clean-up-the-boot-menu

Best regards, Tom

On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Daniel Gimpelevich <
daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:

> On Tue, 2017-08-01 at 17:08 -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> > As as aside, Texstar did _not_ say anything in particular would break
> > his distro.  He deprecated 'apt-get update and apt-get upgrade',
> > recommended the Synaptic front-end to apt-get, and said if people
> > _did_
> > want to use apt-get they should do 'apt-get update and apt-get
> > dist-upgrade'.  Please note the difference between the two command
> > strings.
>
> In my reading of the post, he made two recommendations with the obvious
> combined purpose of avoiding breakage:
> 1) Don't use apt-get upgrade. Instead, use apt-get dist-upgrade, or to
> avoid confusion between the two, Synaptic.
> 2) Whichever you do, do it frequently, because changes in dependencies
> are not guaranteed to be backward-compatible for more than a couple of
> months.
>
>
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