[SOLVED] Live CD with a kernel version older than 2.4 [retro]
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For what purpose? I suspect in that period that the only instances providing a GUI would have been installers. Most installers provide a text shell on vtty2 at least, typically more. Thus you might pick any distro that existed in the period.
Thanks. The CD image from the link you provided is not bootable. Anyway, I hoped I could find something a little more modern. Like from the late 90's or early 2000's.
I think I actually found a viable alternative, "Deli Linux 0.6.1" which uses the 2.2.x kernel. But I can't find a working link to download it.
This is the only link I could find, but it asks for a user/password. ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/delilinux/iso/deli-0.6.1.iso
Maybe you know of other sources where I could find it? Or a similar distro?
I even tried the infamous chatGPT, but it hallucinated up garbage non-existent links
(you can keep telling it that it is wrong, and it will politely keep trying again, forever, LOL)
My first thought was to find a very old book, apparently before Y2K, that contains a Linux CD.
Last edited by iPad; 04-08-2023 at 04:52 PM.
Reason: Remove the nonexistent links that stupid chatGPT provided
I believe Damn Small Linux iso for 3.4.12 contains the kernel version 2.4 (2.04!) so well before 2.10.
The archives have older versions and it should be easy to download and test and find one using kernel version 2.2! DSL kept using older kernel versions because they were SMALLER and they had a self imposed size restraint.
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Live CD with a kernel version older than 2.4 [retro]
