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Old Distributions? 37

Posted by michael from the always-keep-backups dept.
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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Old Distributions?

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  • ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux

    came across it while poking around the RH site trying to find an SRPM for something

  • I'll get to rpm distros (Score:3, Insightful)

    by wmulvihillDxR ( 212915 ) on Tuesday August 07, 2001 @01:37PM (#2127393) Homepage Journal
    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!
    • unfortunitely no, there's a few kernels absent (0.02 and 0.03 for starters) and not all of the stuff is there, the .11 release notes are absent, as is the bootdisk he made around .11 that made linux standalone from linux
      I've been searching for these for about a year now, with no luck.
    • I do believe that this is because Red Hat didn't ship an ISO image until 4.x(?). It was a download-the-whole-damn-tree kind of a thing..

      Maybe they've deleted the trees since, but I didn't think Redhat shipped ISO's until at least the 5.x series...
  • Does anyone know where I can find a full distribution that comes with either a 1.2 or 1.3 kernel?
    • 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
    • I have one at home. It's Linux-FT 1.0 (only 1CD, though, so no extras). I think the kernel version is 1.2.something. It had the nice feature that it ran from the CD, however, if you ran a program, it copied it onto the hard disk, and from there on, it ran from the hard drive.

      Did that make any sense to anyone? I would make an ISO of the CD and offer it for download, but my 'net connection isn't fast enough for me to put it up (until I get back to Uni when I can put it onto a dedicated machine). Can you wait until October?

      • sure. although if you wouldn't mind leaving the connection on for a while, auto-resume software would work perfectly well, just take a while...
  • 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.

    • The main site goes back to 3.2 now, I think, but they used to go back to 3.0.... don't know why they removed the older ones :-(

      In any case, what I'm looking for is older than that, I want something with a 1.2 or 1.3 kernel. Heh.
      • I have an old slack distro that I believe has kernel 1.3 (from 94-95 timeframe). I can probably find a way to post it to ftp. email me at o-u-t-@-r-m-c-i-.-n-e-t and we can arrange a way to get the data to you. Do you have a site that I could upload the .iso files to? Or perhaps I can host them. If there is enough interest from the community, I'd be willing to engineer a way to post some of these, but it's only on DSL...
  • 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 '@')

  • Old RedHat Distros (Score:2, Interesting)

    by poeman ( 60885 )
    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.
  • 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...
  • 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'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.

  • 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.

    Reply email address: god at dehacked.2y.net

  • Some Old CDs (Score:3, Informative)

    by Mignon ( 34109 ) <satan@programmer.net> on Tuesday August 07, 2001 @11:52PM (#2168748)
    I've got some old CDs of various distributions. I don't really know off the top of my head what versions of libc they use, but if anyone is interested in any of them, contact me and we'll figure out how to get you the ISO.

    They are:

    1. Caldera Open Linux version 1.3 (1988)
    2. Storm Linux "Rain" release (Debian based)
    3. TurboLinux Server v 4.0
    4. Debian/GNU Linux 1.2
    5. Slackware 96
    6. RedHat 4.0

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