[Novalug] In Search Of: Antique Install ISO

Derek LaHousse dlahouss@mtu.edu
Fri Jul 26 10:48:31 EDT 2013


Sure, didn't the kernel drop 386 support?  In the expectation that everyone
has at least got a 486 these days?


On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:44 AM, greg pryzby <greg@pryzby.org> wrote:

> My guess is that newer distros/builds won't work. if you have ever tried
> to get OLD hardware working, it will require an old OS because of the cpu.
> The world is NOT backwards compatible, regardless of what you are told.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:20 AM, William Sutton <william@trilug.org>wrote:
>
>> I'm guessing the goal is to have a Linux from that time period, so that
>> it's period-historic.
>>
>> William Sutton
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 26 Jul 2013, jerry w wrote:
>>
>>  Why not the latest linux version allowing ppc?
>>> Old Ubuntu did for appc g3 PowerBook w some boot thingie like ya boot or
>>> rEFIt, so a live CD works, until you update and grub eats it's
>>> own children...
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday, July 25, 2013, Jeremy Hoel wrote:
>>>       Just a note.. that's some pretty awesome google fu.  Nice work.
>>>        :-)
>>>
>>>       On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Bonnie Dalzell
>>>       <bdalzell@qis.net> wrote:
>>>       >
>>>       > went to wayback machine and found out about this page which at
>>>       least
>>>       > suggests some other ppc linux versions that might work other
>>>       than
>>>       > yellowdog.
>>>       >
>>>       >
>>>       http://web.archive.org/web/**20000815204421/http://**
>>> ppclinux.apple.com/<http://web.archive.org/web/20000815204421/http://ppclinux.apple.com/>
>>>       >
>>>       > apparently at one time yellowdog 1.2 files were available at
>>>       the no
>>>       > longer accessible site:
>>>       >
>>>       >   http://ppclinux.apple.com/~**benh/yaboot_0.6.gz<http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/yaboot_0.6.gz>
>>>       >
>>>       >
>>>       >
>>>       > this site gave extensive instructions but of course the links
>>>       to the files
>>>       > are dead.
>>>       >
>>>       > http://www.jonh.net/lppcfom-**serve/cache/949.html<http://www.jonh.net/lppcfom-serve/cache/949.html>
>>>       >
>>>       > however with further googling I found out that yellow dog 1.2
>>>       was named
>>>       > champion 1.2 and so I googled for it and I found this site
>>>       that appears to
>>>       > have the files for the champion releases.
>>>       >
>>>       > http://ftp.caliu.cat/pub/**distribucions/yellowdog/**releases/<http://ftp.caliu.cat/pub/distribucions/yellowdog/releases/>
>>>       >
>>>       > and this link has iso's
>>>       >
>>>       > http://ftp.caliu.cat/pub/**distribucions/yellowdog/iso/<http://ftp.caliu.cat/pub/distribucions/yellowdog/iso/>
>>>       >
>>>       > could this help?
>>>       >
>>>       >
>>>       > of course probably not compiled for ppc.
>>>       >
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