Jilles van GurpNov 5
Peetz0r
Just another day at the Øl Telecom Operating Systems division, CD (Circular Datacarrier) department
Nov 5 at 6:34amWeb
Show threadPeetz0rNov 5

Turns out that when you burn your CD's with a proper CD burner (not one inside an old laptop that has bene sitting still in unknown conditions for an unknown amount of time) it actually works!

Either that or the BIOS update that I grabbed from archive.org yesterday actually made a difference.

Anyway, the one laptop that didn't want to run Linux now runs Linux, specifically Red Hat Linux 7.2 (with Gnome 1.4) from 2001, on a Compaq Armada 100S from 2000.

Show threaddmi 💽 Nov 5
@Peetz0r very comfy looking :3
Show threadStroomAfwaarts 🌱Nov 5
@Peetz0r ghegheghe, nice one. Any thoughts about what "-R" might mean? 😀
Show threadPeetz0rNov 5

@StroomAfwaarts CD-R stands for Circular Datacarrier Minus Round.

This is to signify that there is a Round piece missing from the center of the Circle. Which is very useful for handling your dubbeltjes.

Show threadStroomAfwaarts 🌱Nov 5
@Peetz0r lolol! 😄
Show threadNEPŘÁTELSKÉ EMOCE 🇺🇦🇨🇿Nov 5
@Peetz0r shout out to the hero who wrote i368 to throw off future computer archaeologists *passes the bong*
Show threadPeetz0rNov 5

@lkundrak hey I just wrote what was in the .iso's filename.

https://archive.kernel.org/redhat-archive/redhat/linux/7.2/en/iso/i386/

It's on kernel.org, they should know.

Index of /redhat-archive/redhat/linux/7.2/en/iso/i386/

Show threadPeetz0rNov 5

@lkundrak waitaminuuuute.......

I only now realised that I swapped the 6 and 8.

Not the first time I've done that. oops.

Show threadNEPŘÁTELSKÉ EMOCE 🇺🇦🇨🇿Nov 5
@Peetz0r ibm did that in early 80's, accidentally basing the PC on x86 instead of motorola 68x
Show threadPeetz0rNov 5
@lkundrak sounds plausible so it must be true
Show threadWebber-e-bopNov 5
@Peetz0r only the latest distros I see
Show threadjust a blåhajNov 5
@webbop @Peetz0r it's still lts, dw
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