[GRLUG] Building an "OLD" system

Michael Mol mikemol at gmail.com
Mon Jul 18 13:25:20 EDT 2011


On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Jeff DeFouw <mrj at plorb.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:37:50AM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:
>> At 10:25 AM 7/18/2011, you wrote:
>>
>> >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
>>
>> Unfortunately, the base install images seem to have disappeared, .. :-(
>
> You say that like floppies don't count.
>
> I will try to locate my Debian 2.1 install CD later.  Only CD 2/2 is
> where I expected.

I've put out feelers to find media images for old versions of Debian.
I figure I can get some help getting them verified and uploaded to
archive.org.


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