On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 04:15:46PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote:

> > The oldest backups I still have go back to 2006 which, sadly, is way too
> > modern. Checking the potato release information says security updates
> > were discontinued in 2003. I switched from Redhat to Debian around that
> > time so I'm likely not to have had any backups for potato anyway
> > although I did at least boot it at that time.
> 
> And, of course, as soon as I sent that I found a potato CD on
> archive.org. Downloading now - it's going to take a while - about 20x
> faster than it would have been back in the day over dialup but
> definitely not a high speed archive :-)

https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/ has images going all the way back
to 1.3. Prior to 3.0 is in the "older-contrib" directory.

Cheers,
Tom

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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
                -- Lily Tomlin

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