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I have been caught with a non-bootable system a few times and its much |
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easier to start from an existing config and go from there (After |
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numerous disasters, I wont use genkernel - even if its supposedly ok |
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these days) |
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A (very) few in-tree stuff still seems to want a kernel |
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(vmware-modules?) - not sure what but these days I always keep the last |
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two around as Ive been caught in the past. |
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I also do an occasional ext package - sometimes they want kernel source |
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code. |
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So yes, on a basic, user system you dont need it. But do something out |
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of the ordinary and its quite handy to keep the source code around... |
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YMMV |
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BillK |
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On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 12:12 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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> On Freitag, 27. April 2007, W.Kenworthy wrote: |
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> > rm -rf /usr/src/linux* - dangerous, lokk in there first and only remove |
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> > what you are not using (i.e., leave your current kernel, plus one other |
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> > "good" version as a backup - the number of times Ive had to roll |
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> > back ... :) |
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> emm, no. Not dangerous at all. After you installed your kernel and the 3rd |
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> party modules, you can safely remove the source-dir. There is nothing in it |
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> that is needed anymore. And you don't keep old 'backup sources'. Backup |
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> kernels in /boot are good enough... |
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William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> |
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