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| From | Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Really ancient debian images? (potato or older) |
| Date | 2024-09-14 17:40 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <JmD2p-cei5-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Sat, 14 Sep 2024, Tom Furie wrote: > On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 04:15:46PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: > >>> 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 :-) > > https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/ has images going all the way back > to 1.3. Prior to 3.0 is in the "older-contrib" directory. > Thanks! I didn't see that "older-contrib" directory and I assumed they'd been deleted. That's downloading much, much faster than archive.org. Tim.
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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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