Re: Happy birthday, Debian!
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 07:58:46PM +0300, Shachar Or wrote:
> I wonder if there's a system somewhere that was never re-installed, only
> upgraded from one of the earliest versions...
yes
but not on the disk where debian 1.1 was installed from floppy disks,
and not on the same cpu/motherboard. However the floppy drive should be
the same, I seem to recall. Clearly I do not count as reinstall the copy
of an existing installation.
> It would be interesting to see what ruins can be found amongst the files.
None, if you purge "obsolete or local packages" (with care since some of
these old packages were "essential" at their times)
What you want to be present, if you selectively decide what to purge.
Even libc4 (for a.out binaries), if you keep all.
Try it yourself using archive.debian.net : 1.3.1 is quite similar to the
first release 1.1. Install that and upgrade to 2.0 then to 2.1 then ...
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