Re: checksums for ISOs of early Debian releases
On 5/10/2025 21:47, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Maybe you find something useful under
https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/older-contrib
Thank you! This filled some gaps for me. I'll reach out to them since I
have a few images that are newer.
It is unclear how much they are verified independently of their
contributors.
Noted.
debian-1.3.1-binary-i386.iso
is bootable by an El Torito floppy emulation image named
/boot/resc1440.bin
Now that brings back memories!
It would be interesting to learn more about the early release formats
of Debian.
Were there floppy sets ? Were there always ISOs for download ?
Yes, definitely. Slackware still has their older releases online. Have a
look at 2.3 - the last version released before they introduced CD images:
https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-2.3/
The INSTALL.TXT is a pretty comprehensive walkthrough of the state of
affairs at the time.
For interest's sake, it looks like Debian 0.93 didn't come on a CD either:
$ ls -lh
total 193M
19K Jun 9 2013 10:53 debian_0.93r6_meta.sqlite
3.8K Jun 9 2013 10:53 debian_0.93r6_meta.xml
296 Jun 9 2013 10:53 Debian-0.93R6.sh
195M Jun 9 2013 10:53 Debian-0.93R6.tar
This looks to match what's shared on archive.org (minus the screenshots).
I feel old now
Thanks!
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