On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 01:35:33PM -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Feb 25, 2015 8:25 PM, "jd1008" <[1]jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I found > >[2] https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/ > > and > >[3] https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/ > > and > >[4] http://draconux.free.fr/os_dev/linux0.01.html > > > > But I cannot find any first CD iso releases. > > People have mentioned having CDs and floppies, but no links so far, > so... And I meant to mention in my last mail that I THINK (not direct knowledge) that SLS (Soft Landing Systems) may have been the first to ship a complete integrated system, though I think it may have been on a huge pile of floppies instead of a CDROM. Fred > > Here's some information about running Slackware 1.01 in a virtual > machine, complete with floppy image links: > [5]http://[6]blog.nielshorn.net[7]/2009/06/[8]older-[9]slackware-[10]ve > rsions-vi[11]/ > > The earliest CD image I could find is for Slackware 3.2: > [12]http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/slackware-3.2-iso/ > > From the Red Hat/Fedora side, the earliest floppy image I could find is > from Red Hat Linux 4.2: > [13]http://[14]archive.download.redhat.com[15]/pub/[16]redhat[17]/[18]l > inux[19]/4.2/[20]en[21]/[22]os[23]/i386/images/[24]boot.img > > There's lots of partial content and the root of that URL for earlier > releases, but AFAICT RH didn't make floppy images publicly downloadable > before then; the directories where they would be seem to be all empty. > > The earliest CD images available are for 6.2: > [25]http://[26]archive.download.redhat.com[27]/pub/[28]redhat[29]/[30]l > inux[31]/6.2/[32]en[33]/[34]iso[35]/ > > I guess I'm a real youngster compared to everyone else, because I > didn't join the party till a little bit later, when a friend of my > dad's (I was really a youngster at the time!) handed me a copy of Red > Hat Linux 7 for Dummies complete with CDs in the back cover. > (Thankfully he had good choice in friends, had he instead handed me a > copy of the also recently released Windows 2000 things might have ended > up much differently. :-) > > My poor old Gateway couldn't run Windows 98 without blue screening > every 5 minutes, but damn if it didn't run that thing flawlessly. (It > even made it to Fedora 2 before it finally gave the ghost!) The > included copy of Netscape Navigator 4 left much to be desired, but I > quickly discovered early milestones of this Mozilla Suite thing which > worked much better, despite all the scary warnings Netscape had > plastered all over Mozilla.org at the time. > > -T.C. > > References > > 1. mailto:jd1008@xxxxxxxxx > 2. https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/ > 3. https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/ > 4. http://draconux.free.fr/os_dev/linux0.01.html > 5. http://blog.nielshorn.net/2009/06/older-slackware-versions-vi/ > 6. http://blog.nielshorn.net/2009/06/older-slackware-versions-vi/ > 7. http://blog.nielshorn.net/2009/06/older-slackware-versions-vi/ > 8. http://blog.nielshorn.net/2009/06/older-slackware-versions-vi/ > 9. http://blog.nielshorn.net/2009/06/older-slackware-versions-vi/ > 10. http://blog.nielshorn.net/2009/06/older-slackware-versions-vi/ > 11. http://blog.nielshorn.net/2009/06/older-slackware-versions-vi/ > 12. http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/slackware-3.2-iso/ > 13. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img > 14. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img > 15. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img > 16. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img > 17. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img > 18. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img > 19. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img > 20. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img > 21. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img > 22. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img > 23. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img > 24. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img > 25. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/ > 26. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/ > 27. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/ > 28. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/ > 29. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/ > 30. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/ > 31. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/ > 32. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/ > 33. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/ > 34. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/ > 35. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/ > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? 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