From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 14 8:26:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC9F237B4EC for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:26:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.9.3) with SMTP id f1EGOJi69007; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:24:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <002601c096a2$61ab2b90$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Brad Watts" , References: <200102141536.f1EFabB00357@corp.netcom.ca> Subject: Re: kernel.GENERIC Vs. kernel in / Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:22:48 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 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 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