Need some old, old versions of Slackware

2handband · 12-19-2010, 12:53 PM

Not working, though... I don't think the guest additions cd is being recognized at all. Not a big deal... I'm just screwing around, anyway.

ponce · 12-19-2010, 12:56 PM

btw, I don't think the virtualbox guest addition will run on a 2.4 kernel...

2handband · 12-19-2010, 01:01 PM

According to the virtualbox documentation, it will... that's why i had to switch kernels. Doesn't matter if i can't get the guest additions iso to show up. It's no big deal... as i said, I'm just farting around. I'm still running a fever off and on so it's hard to do anything particularly cerebral.

ponce · 12-19-2010, 01:18 PM

I think it can be /dev/hdb (second ide drive, if you have setup all ide).

btw, have a nice recovery

2handband · 12-19-2010, 01:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ponce

I think it can be /dev/hdb (second ide drive, if you have setup all ide).

btw, have a nice recovery

Code:

mount /dev/hdb /mnt
mount: /dev/hdb is not a valid block device

2handband · 12-19-2010, 01:28 PM

okay, I got it figured. I don't know whether it's the dope I'm on or what, I'm doing some really dumb stuff here...

2handband · 12-19-2010, 01:32 PM

Doesn't matter anyway... it installed the modules, but it doesn't recognize this version of X Windows! Oh, well... it was fun trying.

brianL · 12-20-2010, 06:17 AM

I think qemu might be better than VirtualBox for trying old releases. I had a lot of trouble getting X going, getting a desktop environment, when I tried 3.5 and 8.1, with 12.1 as host. An uncontrollable mouse was the worse thing. I made rough notes at the time (pen & paper scrawls

), more about 3.5 than 8.1. If you're interested, I can post any useful bits here.

D1ver · 12-20-2010, 03:41 PM

Hope your feeling better soon mate!

2handband · 12-24-2010, 07:13 AM

Thanks for the good wishes; I'm up and around again but still have to take it slow. I've had too much trouble trying to do this with virtualbox and am working on getting it set up with qemu-kvm... which doesn't want to talk to my USB mouse. Once I get that sorted out I'm going to try getting some of the really old stuff running.

tekhead2 · 12-24-2010, 05:37 PM

Not trying to threadjack, but I've had this thought for quite some time. With so many different distro's now and so many of them popping up in months and disappearing in months is ANYONE archiving Linux and its many different distro's? I've been concerned that many good old distros will go the way of the dodo with no trace of them.

2handband · 12-29-2010, 08:45 AM

Urrrgh... Slackware 3.9 iso returns the following when i try to run it in a VM, either qemu-kvm or virtualbox:

Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 01:00