[nflug] Let's go old, old, old school linux

Brad Bartram brad.bartram at gmail.com
Fri Jan 4 10:16:45 EST 2008


Thanks for the links.
I actually, just need to find an iso, mount the image, and extract the data
I'm looking for.  I was having a bear of a time trying to find *working*
repositories for some of these old distros.  By old, I'm looking at
slackware 3 / redhat 4 era (1994 - 1997 at the latest).

brad

On Jan 4, 2008 10:11 AM, David Liana <dliana at frontiernet.net> wrote:

> You could get old install CD's and install them in a VM (I've had good
> luck with qemu and some versions of vmware are free):
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/
> http://oldlinux.org/
>
> I think I have a few old distros on CD's from books (I'm in Rochester,
> though).  I use to have a boxed set of RedHat 7.0 and Caldera
> 2.something.
>
>
> Quoting Brad Bartram <brad.bartram at gmail.com>:
>
> > Hey guys -
> > I'm working on a project and I ran into a slight hiccup.  I figured I'd
> give
> > a shout and see if any of you old school linux users had any
> suggestions.
> >
> > I need some config files from mid 1990's linux distros.  I'm doing some
> > comparative analysis of config files (don't ask) but I'm running short
> on
> > resources for some of the ancient distros.  Does anyone know of a good
> > resource on the web where I could find some?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Brad
> >
>
>
>
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