Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:22:48 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Brad Watts" <bwatts@corp.netcom.ca>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: kernel.GENERIC Vs. kernel in / Message-ID: <002601c096a2$61ab2b90$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <200102141536.f1EFabB00357@corp.netcom.ca>
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> 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 kernel compiled from the GENERIC config file. It's the default kernel that FreeBSD ships with (and detects pretty much anything under the sun.) Once you've recompiled and made a custom kernel, you don't really need this anymore so you can delete it. However, keep in mind that it's always a good idea to have two kernels hanging around, so keep at least one of kernel.old and kernel.GENERIC - if a newly recompiled kernel fails to boot, then you can always boot up kernel.old or kernel.GENERIC from the boot prompt and get your system working again. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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