[TUHS] H.J. Lu Bootable Root & Base System disks
Petr Titěra
petr at titera.eu
Fri Jul 17 15:23:16 AEST 2020
It was InfoMagic and that set is Linux Developer Resources. You can find
some releases of it on archive.org. I hunt it and similar sets to try to
reconstruct Linux libc release history.
But this is off topic for this list.
Petr Titera
Dne 17. 7. 2020 v 5:35 Larry McVoy napsal(a):
> I looked, don't have it. There was a red 4 CD set, I want to say it
> was ImageMagick but that's the graphics program. It was a 4 cd set
> of at least one Linux distro and a boat load of open source stuff.
>
> It predated redhat so it was huge back in the day, way better to
> buy that than spend a bizillion days on ftp over a modem.
>
> H.J. Lu's stuff was on it.
>
> Does anyone know where he is? I can go look if that helps.
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 06:59:14PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
>> I have to go look but I think I might have this on CD. I used to have
>> a drawer full of install cds that went back to the 1990's. If I don't
>> follow up, they are gone.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 06:40:45PM -0700, John Gilmore wrote:
>>>> The files used to be on tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/GCC in rootdisk and
>>>> basedisk subdirectories.
>>>
>>> There's a copy of the tsx-11 archives in the Internet Archive here,
>>> along with 8 other archival CDs from Pacific HiTech, but it doesn't
>>> seem to include the directories you want:
>>>
>>> https://archive.org/details/OfficialRedHatCommercialLiNUXV3.0.3
>>>
>>> The same item also has a copy of the old Sunsite archive on 4 CD images.
>>> Was there a mirror of H.J. Lu's early stuff in sunsite?
>>>
>>> Searching for "tsx-11" in the search box at the Internet Archive
>>> turns up half a dozen (typically CDROM .ISO) images of various copies
>>> of the tsx-11 archives.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, the Internet Archive never directly crawled tsx-11.mit.edu,
>>> seemingly because it was never accessible via http?
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>
>> --
>> ---
>> Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
>
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