On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm just installing onto a jffs2 XO-1, no building, just an install, so I >> did the basics: an install then the copy. Did I miss something in the >> install that left the old files around? >> > > Kevin - I've for years been removing the old files manually. > > What I do after the 'uname -r' is 'rpm -q kernel'. That gives me the full > name of the kernel that is not running. Then I do 'rpm -e ...', specifying > that obsolete kernel_full_name. I begin to finish up with 'find / -name > ...' (where ... is a unique string extracted from the full name of the > deleted kernel). Typically there will be leftover files within > /versions/pristine/883 . I manually delete those. [In my opinion, the > principal nand-space user is the leftover /lib/modules/,,, from the > previous running system.] > Thanks again very much Mikus. All works fine. Scripted the install and removes. Since this script is only run immediately after a full reflash to a vanilla 883, the names and locations are consistent. Cheers, KG > > Of course, if the new kernel you installed did not come from a > fully-functional rpm, then little things (like drivers) might stop working. > If you wanted to no longer use the new kernel, but had deleted the > previous kernel, you couldn't go back (e.g., by manually changing the > pointers in the /boot directory <as used by OFW>) -- you would need to do a > complete re-install. > > mikus > > >
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