[SC.LUG] Old distros and stuff

[Pete Barnwell]

Hi John,

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 01:24, John Southern wrote:
> 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 think *all* releases of RedHat (including the Halloween release ;) 
are still available at ftp.redhat.com

Rgds

Pete


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