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Update 8.04 to 8.10 /boot needs more space

Asked by Peter Brindley

Updating and aborts as /boot has not got enough free memory. Wants another 40.1 MB? Tried 'sudo get-apt clean' but still aborts.

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Best Wyatt Smith (wyatt-smith) said : 		#1

If your boot partition is getting tight on space, you should uninstall some of the old kernels that you no longer use. It is usually recommend to keep the current and one stable backup.

To uninstall the kernels that you no longer use, you can open Synaptic Package Manager and hit the search button. In the ´Search´ box put linux-image and in the ´Look in´ box select Name.

Right click on the kernels you no longer use

linux-image-2.6.24-16-generic
linux-image-2.6.24-17-generic
linux-image-2.6.24-18-generic
etc.....

and select Mark for removal. Hit the apply button and this will uninstall the unwanted kernels.

Hope this helps

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Peter Brindley (pdb-ubuntu) said : 		#2

Thanks Wyatt Smith, that solved my question.