Originally posted by: Nothinman
thats the error message, should i go ahead and delete by hand anywya?
No, you never want to delete files from a package without removing the package because you'll end up hosing your package manager database and probably reinstalling the OS.
Are you using 2.4.27 for anything at all? If not, run this instead 'apt-get remove --purge kernel-image-2.4.27'. That should print out all the packages that depend on kernel-image-2.4.27 and ask if you want to remove them as well.
i got a bunch of stuff, and they were all dpkg warnings, the last few lines look like this
dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `lsof' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
73070 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing linux-wlan-ng-modules-2.4.27 ...
Removing kernel-image-2.4.27 ...
Purging configuration files for kernel-image-2.4.27 ...
The link /vmlinuz is a dangling link
Removing symbolic link /vmlinuz
Unless you used the optional flag in lilo,
you may need to re-run lilo
rmdir: `/lib/modules/2.4.27': Directory not empty
dpkg - warning: while removing kernel-image-2.4.27, directory `/lib/modules/2.4.27/kernel/fs' not empty so not removed.
but the 2.4 kernel is gone from the list now. and so far my wireless still works. weird