Two linux systems?

[Andrew Raggett]

Hi

I have just installed fedora core 6 on my latitude and noticed when I
select the boot menu there appear to be two versions installed along
with my windows xp OS - the boot screen gives 3 options:

Fedora Core (2.6.19-1.2895.fc6)
Fedora Core (2.6.19-1.2798.fc6)
Windows XP

It seems to default to the first one but what are these two?

Grateful for any help

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[Nick Morrott]

On 27/01/07, Andrew Raggett  wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have just installed fedora core 6 on my latitude and noticed when I
> select the boot menu there appear to be two versions installed along
> with my windows xp OS - the boot screen gives 3 options:
>
> Fedora Core (2.6.19-1.2895.fc6)
> Fedora Core (2.6.19-1.2798.fc6)
> Windows XP
>
> It seems to default to the first one but what are these two?

You have one installation of Fedora Core 6 on the machine, with two
different (although not much) kernels installed. The second entry is
probably the kernel that was installed when you installed Fedora, the
first item (the default) is a newer kernel installed when you (or your
system) installed available updates for your system. Nothing to worry
about - you can remove the older kernel if you never use it, but it
doesn't harm things to keep it around (or take up a lot of space
either).

Nick