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Re: Really ancient debian images? (potato or older)

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On Sat, 14 Sep 2024, Tim Woodall wrote:

> Is there anywhere I can download really, really ancient debian images. I
> need potato or older (i386). I'd like a mountable disk image.
>
> I have no idea if debootstrap supports this, I haven't tried (yet), I
> was hoping there was somewhere I could download an image.
>
> This is to build some ancient software. I've tried Jessie, which is the
> oldest release I have images for but unfortunately that has e2fslibs-dev
> 1.42 while the software will not build with e2fslibs >1.19.
>
> The oldest backups I still have go back to 2006 which, sadly, is way too
> modern. Checking the potato release information says security updates
> were discontinued in 2003. I switched from Redhat to Debian around that
> time so I'm likely not to have had any backups for potato anyway
> although I did at least boot it at that time.
>

And, of course, as soon as I sent that I found a potato CD on
archive.org. Downloading now - it's going to take a while - about 20x
faster than it would have been back in the day over dialup but
definitely not a high speed archive :-)

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Really ancient debian images? (potato or older) Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2024-09-14 17:10 +0200
  Re: Really ancient debian images? (potato or older) Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2024-09-14 17:20 +0200
    Re: Really ancient debian images? (potato or older) Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk> - 2024-09-14 17:30 +0200
      Re: Really ancient debian images? (potato or older) Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2024-09-14 17:40 +0200
    Re: Really ancient debian images? (potato or older) Michael Kjörling <c9bc136c6063@ewoof.net> - 2024-09-14 17:40 +0200
      Re: Really ancient debian images? (potato or older) Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2024-09-14 18:40 +0200
        Re: Really ancient debian images? (potato or older) Christian Groessler <chris@groessler.org> - 2024-09-14 23:00 +0200
          Re: Really ancient debian images? (potato or older) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-09-15 08:00 +0200
            Re: Really ancient debian images? (potato or older) Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2024-09-15 12:10 +0200

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