Comment 80 for bug 798414

Iain,

This 'bug has been around for a long time now and the information that
is on or comes back from the forum is inadequate and in one instance
rendered my computer unbootable.

In the end I moved back to Windows 7 for all my serious work and now use
Ubuntu 14.04 for anything that I'm prepared to loose. I hope one day to
be able to move back to Ubuntu as my main computing platform when it is
as stable as Win 7.

Good luck.

On 10/11/15 23:43, Iain wrote:
> As a very new member of the Ubuntu community can I make a couple of
> observations?
>
> First: I understand the statement "Insufficient space in /boot" however:
> when I used the instruction that is supposed to clear space [sudo apt-
> get clean] it either didn't or didn't clear enough. So I thought I'd
> take the direct approach. I'm an Administrator, so I loaded the Files
> application and went looking, but when I found what I thought was the
> /boot folder the system would not allow me to delete some older files
> (looked like downloads from earlier updates). Maybe the error message
> can include a solution that tells me how to delete the old files and/or
> increase the space of the /boot folder? Or even where to find the /boot
> folder?
>
> My second comment is that maybe once the installation of an update has
> successfully completed then the downloaded installation files could be
> deleted?
>
> I've tried limiting the download to smaller sections of the current
> update but nothing seems to install.
>
> Quick update: I thought I'd take one more look at the search engine and
> I found another command to remove junk from the boot (sudo apt-get
> autoremove) and this tells me it removed 300MB but the install still
> says it needs 30MB more than the available limit...
>
> How do I clean up the /boot folder?
>