[GRLUG] Building an "OLD" system

[Michael Mol]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:07 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> At 09:54 AM 7/18/2011, you wrote:
>
>> You'll want the full install from disk. Older ISO disk images should be
>> available online for most common distros. A little research on your part
>> will find what version to use for a given date. I'm sure there are people on
>> the list with either the cd/dvd's or the images as well. I know I have disks
>> going a long way back lol
>>
>> Dave
>
> A CD is the easy part, .. I am more concerned with libraries & repositories;
> for example, I know we will need:
>
> libmysqlclient
> libboost-doc
> libboost-dev
> libboost-thread-dev
> libboost-regex-dev
> libboost-date-time-dev
>
> Wound one expect all of these to be on a 3.x CD?
>
>        Thanks!
>
>        Lee

At the time (and possibly still today), Debian has CD image sets that
contained *all* of their base and contrib packages (not sure about
non-free). I remember downloading and burning one set of ISOs that
came to 650MB x 11. That was how I kept my software library broad and
up-to-date when I was on dial-up, and GRCC was my only shot at a fast
internet connection.

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