On 02/25/2015 09:08 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, jd1008 <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> said:
I found
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/
and
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/
and
http://draconux.free.fr/os_dev/linux0.01.html
But I cannot find any first CD iso releases.
Linus just does the kernel, not distribution ISOs, so you won't find
any from him.
The earliest Linux I ran was in the pre-distribution days, when H.J. Lu
at MIT (who IIRC maintained the early Linux ports of gcc/binutils and
libc) put together boot/root floppy sets. You had the "boot" floppy,
which was just a kernel; it would load and then prompt you to insert the
root filesystem floppy and press return. You then inserted the "root"
floppy, which had your basic root filesystem.
It was a big deal when he trimmed things down enough to make a single
boot/root combined floppy; you didn't have to change disks! It booted
to a bash prompt, and had basic tools like ls, vi, fdisk, and mkfs.
I don't believe I have any of those old floppy images anymore, and I
didn't find copies when I looked around a few years ago.
I think I still have some Slackware floppies in a box in my storage
room, probably from early 1995. The oldest Red Hat product I have is
Red Hat Linux 3.0.3 on CD, from 1996. Since a lot of systems then
didn't boot from CD (or didn't even have CD), the CD set included the
floppy images that you could also use to install.
Thank you for your post.
Reason I was looking for CD was my incorrect assumption
that it might have been available.
I did locate some floppy images on the web.
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