From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 14 8:23:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsl-64-193-218-89.telocity.com (dsl-64-193-218-89.telocity.com [64.193.218.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 187A637B4EC for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:23:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 30723 invoked by uid 1000); 14 Feb 2001 16:20:36 -0000 Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:20:36 -0600 From: Lucas Bergman To: Brad Watts Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel.GENERIC Vs. kernel in / Message-ID: <20010214102036.G8539@billygoat.slb.to> Reply-To: lucas@slb.to References: <200102141536.f1EFabB00357@corp.netcom.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200102141536.f1EFabB00357@corp.netcom.ca>; from bwatts@corp.netcom.ca on Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 10:36:37AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This may be a very silly question, but what is the difference > between the kernel.GENERIC Vs. kernel? I've safely recompiled my > kernel a whihle ago and want to clear some space on my root > partition. Can I safely delete kernel.GENERIC ? I want to be sure. /kernel.GENERIC is a copy of the kernel that ships with FreeBSD. It's there so that if you compile your own kernel (and screw it up), and your system won't boot, you have a working kernel you can boot. In other words, it's only there as a safety net; go ahead and remove it if you don't think you need it. Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message