Re: checksums for ISOs of early Debian releases
On Mon, Oct 06, 2025 at 03:28:24AM +1100, Lister wrote:
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> 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 ?
>
Someone in Germany burnt me gold CDs for 1.2 - I don't think there were any
prior versions. 1.3 came on a properly made "Oficial" [sic] version that
was released. My copies are with Steve McIntyre :)
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> 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
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> This looks to match what's shared on archive.org (minus the screenshots).
>
> I feel old now
>
> Thanks!
>
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