[SC.LUG] Old distros and stuff

[John Southern]

I normally choose Knoppix to throw into a machine to see if the hardware is 
OK. Unfortunately, today I was trying to resurrect an old laptop. Memory of 
just 48MB.
Without thinking I threw in Knoppix and forgot about it. One hour later it had 
finally managed to display a KDE screen. This was something of a shock as 
96MB is the stated minimum for KDE. Anyway, It was too slow to do anything 
and failed for what I wanted (to see it this old laptop supported sound).
I wanted something quick so I threw in Feather Linux. But at 115MB it was too 
big to load any modules.
Puppy was next. Again failed on modules but on the forums this was a known 
problem as was the case with DamnSmallLinux, although I had a lot of fun with 
that distro.

As I only wanted a quick install, I browsed the web to find that in the 
distant past someone had managed to get this chip to work under Mandrake 8.0.

The question is - Where on the web are old distros archived?
I am mainly thinking about RedHat 7.1 etc

I eventually spent thirty minutes going through dusty piles of disks to 
discover a box set of 8.2 which is busy doing a quick install, so I do not 
actually need any old distros, I am just curious to know if they still exist 
in the ether.

Has anyone come across the ctangle command for Irix 6.5?
If so, What does it actually do?

Playing with the tiny distros and following on from the last talk, all seemed 
to use Dillo rather than Galeon, but the also all contained Beaver. This 
seems similar in function to a basic Emacs editor but tiny in size. Anyone 
tried it?

John

Mandrake installed with about a billion packages I did not want and sound did 
not work. Now off to find out just what module was supposedly added to make 
it work.