What Is The Oldest Linux Installation CD You Have?
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I have Mandrake Linux for Windows, though I do not have it here (it is at my parents house), it was my first introduction to Linux at home. I bought back in 2000, as I wanted to learn how to use Linux more after getting introduced to it at my first computer science lab. So I swung by BestBuy, bought what I was able to afford and was glad that it was a good introduction.
The oldest one I remember is a RHL 2.1 and following from 1996. Also some Mandrake from the end of the 90s. I also recall using Debian a few times from a Computer-Mag-CD. I threw it all away when tidying the cellar a few years ago.
Attached some samples I used way back ... my first real install was LOAD (Linux On A Disk), which at the time was one of the practical ways here in Belgium for those without bandwidth (early 90´s), if I find the time I might hunt the remains ...
Peter
Last edited by pjo; 09-01-2015 at 11:13 AM.
Reason: bad attachement
I've worked with RHEL3 before (have an ISO somewhere, but no original CD). Also have RedHat 7.x CDs (again, as someone else has mentioned, this is RedHat 7.x, NOT RHEL7)... :-)
I know no one will want to see the one on the right, but it is history.
I also have manuals somewhere, but no diskettes, for MS-DOS 3, 4, 6.0, 6.2 (and manual), 6.22 "Step-Up", GeoWorks Ensemble ("PC-GEOS") 1.0, 1.2 (these were 5.25" floopies which got thrown out long ago).
The first OSes I ever used was XE DOS and Atari DOS when I was something like 5 years old.
because they were all CDR's I wont post a pick but I have copies of FreeSpire,LinSpire and the original Lindows ( debian Sarge) I also have a very old copy of Red Hat -- not sure which but I want to say 1997 I remember playing "kill Bill" on the desk top -- unfortunately the CD is too scratched to read so I cant give you the actual release number
Redhat 7.2...I had to upgrade the kernel right away. Hard lesson: a newbe that has to compile the kernet all the way
The next DECENT ones are Redhat 9.0, of which I do have a set...
Thor
(and...I dont intnet to win this competition...hehe, I'm a newbe )
Oldest CD I have is from Red Hat 5.4. (That had already been beat.)
Oldest Distro I have is a stack of 3.5" disks for Slackware from 1993 that I downloaded from a newsgroup for binaries. Target system had 40MHz AMD 386, 1MB RAM, 80MB Hard Drive.
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What Is The Oldest Linux Installation CD You Have?
