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11-05-2014, 12:17 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2008
Location: Buckinghamshire, UK
Distribution: Fedora 20
Posts: 22
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Installing old distros - Non ISO problem
Hi there, for nostalgia purposes I'm installing some old distributions of Linux I have found from this website:
http://ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/distributions/
The problem I am having is that none of the distributions are contained as .ISO files. Is there any easy way of putting these into an .iso? Or does anyone know any handy sites with more but in ISO?
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11-05-2014, 12:47 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Sep 2011
Location: Upper Hale, Surrey/Hants Border, UK
Distribution: One main distro, & some smaller ones casually.
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Most of those distros were issued on floppy disks, before CD drives were ubiquitous.
You would probably need to extract the files from the floppies & then create a bootable iso image.
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11-05-2014, 12:53 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Canada
Distribution: distro hopper
Posts: 11,372
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For Slackware, look at the INSTALL.TXT files. They cover how to make the floppy images.
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11-05-2014, 01:02 PM
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LQ Addict
Registered: Dec 2013
Posts: 19,872
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you have to untar them with tar.
search the web on how to do that, because it's probably quicker than reading the man page.
or trust the archive manager of your choice to handle it.
downloading yggdrasil now, i'll post back if it's still not in .iso after that.
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11-05-2014, 01:33 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2008
Location: Buckinghamshire, UK
Distribution: Fedora 20
Posts: 22
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Thank you. I wasn't 100% though whether there was something I would need to do to the files to make them bootable from CD.
For anyone else who's interested just found a bunch of old RedHat Linux ISOs. Think 4.0 onwards has ISOs:
http://redhat.lsu.edu/dist/ |
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11-06-2014, 01:48 AM
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LQ Addict
Registered: Dec 2013
Posts: 19,872
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it definitely didn't give me an .iso when i extracted yggdrasil.
but then, i'm not sure if i want to go to the trouble of trying to install a 1994 linux distro on my current machine...
but i may try some of the newer ones, just for fun.
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