[ALUG] Alug 10th Anniversary Time Machine

[Wayne Stallwood]

On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 10:14 +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:

> 
> The correct way to go seems to be to create the CD manually:
>     http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/RedHat-CD-HOWTO.html
> 
> (It's amazing how much time you can waste looking for something when you 
> *know* it *must* be out there!)
> 

Thank you for that Mark, I have now managed to build what appears to be
a working installation image. Just need to remember now how one
configured X in the old days :)

We also have hardware now...a lovely K6-2 500 with an impressive 64MB of
Ram, so once I have installed that and found compatible hardware for
things like GFX and possibly network, the only thing we are missing is a
screen.

I could of course grab a 17" TFT from here, but does anyone have a nice
shabby 15" CRT (or 17" at a push) that they could bring to the meet for
that true retro experience ?

I am unsure of the internet connectivity situation at Syleham but it
would be kind of fun to get this beast on the interweb. I have a Wifi
Bridge (or we could use someone's laptop as a GSM gateway) but I could
do with a period PCI network card that is likely to be easy to get going
on such an old kernel. Something like a Dec Tulip compat, or a 3c509 or
something NE2000 based.

Of course it would also be nice to have several distros of the same
vintage for comparison so if anyone fancies building a SuSE linux 6 or
6.1 box or a period Debian box, we could reignite some of the old
flamewars (KDE vs Gnome at that time would be fun to see again)