New Ubuntu user

I'm worried about the disk space. Do you think that the four OS's that appear on the boot screen are taking
me space?

I had forgotten to unplug a pair of USB drives and the GRUB installer sniffed them out and added them to the boot menu. Later I edited them out but there was never a concern about disk space. The effect was purely cosmetic.

Bob

Cuchi

If you will tell us the exact wording of the os's and what Ubuntu you have installed.

Are you using grub boot manager?

We can help you remove them from your screen.

Ray

this is what appears on the screen:

Ubuntu, Kernel 2.6.17-11 generic
Ubuntu, Kernel 2.6.17-11 generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu, Kernel 2.6.15-23- amd 64 - generic
Ubuntu, Kernel 2.6.15-23- amd 64 - generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu, memtest 86+

others OS's:
XP

I first installed version 6.06 LTS 64 - bit, and then upgrade to 6.10.

When the computer starts up, it says grub loading, but other than that, i really don't know.

Cuchi

You can change the menu items from displaying on the menu list by adding a # in front of the item

Open a terminal and type without the quote marks"sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst"

I would suggest you keep the kernel you are using and recovery either 2.6.17.11 or2.6.15.23 amd 64 mode you have to keep other os's and xp.

Scroll down until you find the entry you want to hide and put a # and space in front of it.

This will change your boot default whenever you hide these items so you need to count the number of items left with the first being zero.

Near the top of the menu you will find a number should be seven change this number to correspond with the item you want to auto boot.

To reverse this procedure just remove the # marks where you want to make a change.

This will not delete the entries from the menu only keep them from displaying.

Very little space being used by these entries only a cosmetic change your screen.

HTH
Ray

I agree, they're not using much space.

It's not actually 4 full installations of Ubuntu. It's one installation, but it looks like you've installed a newer version of the Linux kernel and that is available to you. The older kernel is only using about 8 megabytes.

The ones marked "recovery mode" give emergency, failsafe root access in case you do something really bad to your system. I'd recommend keeping both an older kernel and the recovery mode, so as far as I'm concerned your system is set up perfectly.