Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Aug 2001 23:09:01 -0400 | From | jlnance@intrex ... | Subject | Re: more kernel .01 |
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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,
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