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From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
To: "Brad Watts" <bwatts@corp.netcom.ca>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: kernel.GENERIC Vs. kernel in /
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:22:48 -0500
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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



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