[GRLUG] Building an "OLD" system

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:13:22AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> 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.

One can still access the archived repositories, just as one would access
Squeeze, Wheezy, and Sid.  In other words, one could install a base
system from, say, a Woody CD, and still access all the packages that were
available for that release.

http://www.debian.org/distrib/archive
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