Need more space in boot folder

[Humanities Major]

Hi, my laptop is currently running on 8.04 and I want to (finally) upgrade to 8.10. I tried to upgrade but the thingy tell me I need 11 mbs more space in my boot file and to run sudo apt- get clean in the terminal.
I did that but it cleaned away nothing and I can't exactly go deleting things in the boot folder or the computer will just not run. I have plenty of free disk space so I'm wondering how I can make the boot folder bigger. Does that make any sense?
Is there another way to install the upgrade without losing all my settings?

[raymondh]

Hi, my laptop is currently running on 8.04 and I want to (finally) upgrade to 8.10. I tried to upgrade but the thingy tell me I need 11 mbs more space in my boot file and to run sudo apt- get clean in the terminal.
I did that but it cleaned away nothing and I can't exactly go deleting things in the boot folder or the computer will just not run. I have plenty of free disk space so I'm wondering how I can make the boot folder bigger. Does that make any sense?
Is there another way to install the upgrade without losing all my settings?


kindly post output of (from terminal)


df -h

also of

sudo fdisk -l

(small L not 1)

also, see links

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoverLostDiskSpace
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/resize/resizing.htm