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    SubjectRe: more kernel .01
    On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 04:43:57PM -0400, tristan wrote:
    > The reason i was hoping to run an old version of the kernel,
    > .01 or .02(as someone proposed), is so i can use it as a basis
    > for learning to add on to, compile, and change an os's kernel.
    > I know i can do this with all kernels, but the .01 kernel is very small
    > and the very beginning of the kernel so i can build on it. i am
    > open to installing say red hat 5.2 and then running .01 on a
    > VM, but i only have it on a cd, and the 386 has no cdrom drive.
    > Does anyone know of a place i can get an old version of red hat
    > ive been searching for awhile, or a way to copy the cd to
    > multiple floppies that are able to be install.
    > Id really rather have away of just installing it over the DOS partition
    > but it seems everyone thinks it would be best to install minix of red
    > hat first, and im fine with that.
    > So if anyone has information on old red hat version i would
    > be very greatful

    Long long ago, before Red Hat or any other distributions, people installed
    Linux using a pair of floppies called the boot disk and the root disk. This
    was how I first installed Linux, using the 0.11 or 0.12 kernel. It was
    pretty easy to install a minimal self hosting Linux system using these disks.
    If you can find someone with a set of these disk images for 0.11 and the
    associated gcc disks, you can probably get a very early linux system up
    fairly quickly. I dont know who might have a set laying around, but I
    hope this mail generates some comments from people who do.

    Thanks,

    Jim
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