On Nov 25 2005, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 12:44:50AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > > I would think that something like jigdo or a torrent would be more > > helpful for the community, of course. > > Jigdo is only relevant if the archive is still around to build images > from easily I think.
Of course, but it seems that at least planetmirror has it archived, IIRC from other posts. > > This way, the person providing the "ISO" would not really have to cope > > with the full upload of the ISO: in the case of jigdo, much smaller > > files would be sufficient. > > Understood. Where is all this interest in really old versions of > Debian coming from? At this rate I'll bring a 386 with 4M to the next > Linux Expo in London _because I can_ :) Heh, it's cool to have old hardware running well. :-) And not only that, but it is also a good way of "benchmarking" the current programs (say, glibc against libc4 or libc5). And building a (statically built, as you woulnd't probably want to mess with installation of module-init-tools in such an old distribution) 2.6 kernel for such a beast would be nicem, if possible. :-) It's all a good learning exercise, to know the limits of our software and hardware. :-) Such pet projects are indeed quite cool, IMVHO. :-) For instance, I have an old PowerMac 8500/180MP here where, with a slow (SCSI) disk, but still alive. :-) Official support from its original manufacturer for such beast has ended quite some ago, but it works perfectly with sarge, for instance. :-) Regards, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
