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rsd writes: "I have been searching the web for a few days looking for old rpm based distributions ISOs for a study with libc5. All I could find so far is some loose packages, but not a downloadable
ISO image. For RedHat 4.2 and older, Conectiva Linux 1.0, ... it is impossible to find. So I ask myself is there a centralized place taking care of this, for public use and even preservation of the Linux History and evolution? We have lots of places with ISO images, like linuxiso, however these sites just keep with recent distributions."
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i would LOVE to have a copy of SLS
can you put this up?
Jeff,
Funny you should ask that. I have 6 CDs in one of my boxes, there are a linux arcive sold in 1995. Including redhat 1/2, old slackware, and the full sunsite arcives. I will bring it with me to the dorms if ya want.
Nate
"The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm; usually because they could not walk" Nietzsche
ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux
came across it while poking around the RH site trying to find an SRPM for something
But first, I do know that Linux history is preserved at least for the kernel. Linus has every single kernel every made on the kernel.org site. Not that having these kernels solves your original problem, but at least you have the kernels.
Before anyone else makes this mistake, I'd like to say, don't go by a directory listing of ftp.redhat.com. I went to it and looked and sure enough, there were directories for RH 1.0-RH 4.1 and I thought, "Boy this guy is dumb." There are right there on redhat's site. But then I went all the way down to the iso directory for RH 4.1 and sure enough, there was nothing there. Ack! So this guy does have a beef. You might try checking one of the ftp.redhat.com mirrors that has been around for awhile (I don't have examples) but maybe they didn't rsync --delete!
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Does anyone know where I can find a full distribution that comes with either a 1.2 or 1.3 kernel?
Does anyone have the 0.11 kernel release notes and the linux bootdisk that Linus made to make linux standalone from minix around .11? I've checked every directory I could find on kernel.org and also the original linux mirror (a finnish FTP site whos hostname escapes me) without luck
I can't get to the ftp.slackware.com site from work, but I do know that on some of the public mirrors they go as far back as slack 3.3 (with a 2.0.x kernel) I think on the main slack site, you can get even further back.
Slack is GOOD, and good for you.
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
But I do have some early libc6 stuff. Actually, quite a bit of it. I thought about donating my old discs, but I'd rather burn a new distro for a new user.
Depending on when you started using Linux you have:
A huge stack of floppies of one distro. You used it, and it was good (early adopters)
About a billion Linux-Mall or Cheapbytes products (from their sampler packages. This is me)
A couple of iso's you burned yourself (the modern equivalent of the floppies) or a boxed distro (conspicuous consumption?)
Anyway, sorry, no help. I might have a RH 4.2 disk. Send email (remove second '@')
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
I have several old RedHat distros on CD - I'd be willing to copy these if someone had a place to put the iso's at. I know I have 2.1, 3.3?, 4.2, and I believe I still have the mother's day release as well.
Even more interesting would be to see the old SLS releases. I remember when I worked for what seemed like a week to get something working under 0.97 pl4, and then Peter releases the first SLS release with 0.98
Oh the days when I was amazed by the fact that you could go to an ftp site, download something, and then not have to download it by kermit over a 2400 link!
I think this is the first RedHat release from 1995. Here's some of the README:
Red Hat Commercial Linux
Mother's Day + 0.1 Release 1995
The contents of this CD-ROM are Copyright (C) 1995 Red Hat Software
and others. Please see the individual copyright notices in each source
package for distribution terms. The distribution terms of the tools
copyrighted by Red Hat Software are as noted in the file COPYING.
The docs subdirectory contains lots of information. The answers to
most of your questions are probably in there somewhere! Please see
http://www.redhat.com/ and/or ftp://ftp.redhat.com/ for the latest
information, installation tips, new packages, etc.
I believe I have the ISOs for all three RedHat 4.x releases. I'll check when I get home. If I do, I'll put the ISOs up and pray I don't get slashdotted. I'll reply to this comment and let you guys know.
> Caldera Open Linux version 1.3 (1988)
;-)
Oh, i should have know, GNU/Linux is a fork off of an ancient caldera project
Hi,
i have a *ton* of old dists... (Tamu (1993), Slackware 1.2,2.0,2.3, MCC 0.99plxx, 1.0, 1.2, Bogus (1993-94),
also 386BSD-0.1, and netbsd-0.9-1.2.x
if anyone is interested, let me know and i'll put 'em up on a ftp somewhere...)
Thanks to MUUG (the Manitoba Unix User Group) for not cleaning up their ftp site since 97. Them being one of the main North American mirrors for redhat. You can download Redhat 1.0 on up. Thank god for pack rats...I HOLLA PS ftp.muug.mb.ca is their site enjoy...
I didn't mean for that to be AC.
mail me at:
j e f f r e y AT f i r e h e a d DOT o r g
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Used bookstores often have old CD sets. You won't get much older than RedHat 4.0 that way though.
I've also dug some interesting stuff out of the ten-cent-a-floppy bin at goodwill. Old versions of GEM (a pre-windows windowing system, I think, haven't tried it yet). One of the first versions of Lotus 1-2-3 turned out to be unfortunately unreadable due to floppy damage.
Is it possible that you could get some of the old floppy installation images (from the days when you used 14 floppies to install a linux) out of a usenet archive somewhere ?
I have a Linux Unleashed book with Redhat 4.2. If your in the Boston area I'll burn you a copy and I'll give it to you. Reply to this if you want a copy.
I have a very small mind and must live with it.
-- E. Dijkstra
I've got a RedHat 2.1 CD that I could copy if you'd like. My pipe isn't large enough to put it up for public download, but I could upload ISOs to a provided site or burn & mail copies.
I have that CD right on my wall. It's a clock now. Old distros are useful even if you're not going to install them. Sometimes they come on pretty CDs. Just go to www.klockit.com and get a $5 clock movement for that CD that's just too pretty to throw away.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
I have an old copy of InfoMagic Linux Developer's resource dating back to September 1996. It was a 6 CD set. I still have it lying around. It also had some Slackware and one disk has "Debian JE Dist." on it. I'm not selling it or mailing it, but maybe I could arrange an ISO transfer if you're willing to put up with my provider's speeds.
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