From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 14 8:52:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news.lucky.net (news.lucky.net [193.193.193.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F76A37B401 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:52:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mail@localhost) by news.lucky.net (8.Who.Cares/8.Who.Cares) id SUA15279 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:52:04 +0200 (envelope-from news@news.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua) From: "Andrey Simonenko" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel.GENERIC Vs. kernel in / Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:00:00 +0300 Organization: NTUU "KPI" Message-ID: <96ea3m$lb7$1@igloo.uran.net.ua> References: <200102141536.f1EFabB00357@corp.netcom.ca> X-Trace: igloo.uran.net.ua 982166454 21863 10.18.54.109 (14 Feb 2001 16:00:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can delete /kernel.GENERIC, but if you install new kernel and for the same reson delete /kernel.old before new kernel checking and new kernel will not work, you will have to find somewhere floppy disk with correct kernel to bootstrap your system. It is better to have kernel.GENERIC and you should be able to bootstrap your system with it, even if you install/deinstall some hardware from your system,etc. Brad Watts wrote in message news:200102141536.f1EFabB00357@corp.netcom.ca... > 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. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message