What Is The Oldest Linux Installation CD You Have?
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Did you know the El Torito bootable CD specification didn't even come out until 1995? I was a little disappointed I couldn't boot from my Trans-Ameritech CD, but then it all came flashing back that booting wasn't a thing you could do with CDs back then. Furthermore, ATAPI, which created a standard interface for things like IDE CDROMs, wasn't adopted until 1998. Before that we had device specific drivers, and interface cards IIRC, for everything. I suppose SCSI CDROMs might have had a standard that predated ATAPI, but who could afford those, I was happy the kernel supported my Mitsumi CDROM at the time.
In my CD wallet I have a collection of CD/R's: Mint 14, Ubuntu 10.10, Slackware 14.1, Opensuse 11.4, DSL 4.4.6, Debian 40r4a?, as well as more up-to-date versions.
The oldest Linux CD I have is from LGX.
The Linux/GNU/X-Windows Operating System from Fall 1993 from Yggdrasil Computing, How do we post an image here?
I have a note on the case that says is is version 0.99.5, but I do not remember where I got that from.
I have something from Trans-Ameritech Systems. I can't remember when I got it but there are 4 disks dated between April 95 to October 96. I wasn't successful at installing them on the 486 I had at the time.
I know no one will want to see the one on the right, but it is history.
This isn't Linux and it really isn't mine, but I'd thought I'd share.
I worked at my school over the summer helping with imaging the desktops. While we were cleaning out the back room, we came across an unopened copy of Windows. (Unopened as in it still had the original plastic shrink-wrap covering it.) I want to say that it was 3.1, but I'm not positive. I'll see if I can get a picture of it tomorrow morning.
My oldest and first distro was Slackware 3.04 (kernel 2.0.30) 4 disc set with 36 pages install. guide, since '98 when I started with a BBS system. Could not attach images, it's disabled.
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Way back in 1997 I started my own little company, and I wanted to learn everything I could. I wandered into a local computer shop and there on the shelf was this book (can't find the book, darn it) "Red Hat Power Tools". It included discs for linux for pretty much all the platforms of the time. It took me hours of trial and error before I saw my first shell prompt, and of course, didn't have a clue what to do with it back then. I have come a long way since then. So these hold a special place for me.
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