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Does anyone save old Linux install disks?

JockVSJockJockVSJock Member Posts: 1,118
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What do you all do with old Linux install disks?

Save them? I have a number of them, except they are just collecting dust...Install them? Give them away? Throw them away?

I have such fond memories...

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    JeanMJeanM Member Posts: 1,117
    Those aren't even that old ;) I think I have slackware 3.x somewhere , memories of installing from floppy disks ...
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    stryder144stryder144 Member Posts: 1,684 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Holy crap! I haven't seen a Storm Linux distro disk in a long, long time! Man, I miss Maximum Linux magazine.
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    MrAgentMrAgent Member Posts: 1,310 ■■■■■■■■□□
    I actually just threw a bunch of old disks, boxes, and cd-roms out. I had a Redhat 4 set that was included as well as some older slackware installs from around 2000.
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    MTciscoguyMTciscoguy Member Posts: 552
    They work great if you like to shoot shotguns!

    :D
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    UnixGuyUnixGuy Mod Posts: 4,564 Mod
    Sell them on ebay
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    yzTyzT Member Posts: 365 ■■■□□□□□□□
    I have a Ubuntu Live CD from 2006 or 2007 which have saved me more than once :D
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    JockVSJockJockVSJock Member Posts: 1,118
    MTciscoguy wrote: »
    They work great if you like to shoot shotguns!

    :D

    Too dangerous, might loose an eye.

    I was thinking of coasters for my living room.
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    MTciscoguyMTciscoguy Member Posts: 552
    Not a chance of that, didn't they teach not to look down the barrel of a shotgun?
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    W StewartW Stewart Member Posts: 794 ■■■■□□□□□□
    I've got a nice metal cd case that I keep all of my linux CDs in.
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    alan2308alan2308 Member Posts: 1,854 ■■■■■■■■□□
    The only physical discs I still have is SuSE 6.4, the first distro I bought. I do have a lot of old ISOs though.
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    RafaNoor91RafaNoor91 Member Posts: 11 ■□□□□□□□□□
    Well, I have an old compputer currently running Windows Xp and i need help on how to format the whole compuuter and Instal linux. I need help to find out how to format my hard drive
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    MTciscoguyMTciscoguy Member Posts: 552
    Every install I have done of Linux gives you the option to format the hard drive.
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    petedudepetedude Member Posts: 1,510
    I'm wondering if RafaNoor is thinking it's necessary to format the drive in advance, or simply wants to ensure the drive is clean (or maybe attempting an install from a command line?).

    With older Linux installs there were a few that required formatting outside the installer. With newer distros, I haven't seen that behavior in probably at least 10 years.

    As to old Linux CDs. . . I've kept a few around that were good for certain tasks, or represented the best release I saw of a given distro that I couldn't give up. I think I still have a SuSE 10.3 disc around. SuSE has added some nice features since, but they keep doing things to slow their distro down, and issue flaky updates. I kept an Ubuntu 9.04 disc around for the longest time as it was one of the best Linux releases to that point. . . it ran fast and had a decent UI. I kept a Corel Linux disc (and one of its descendants, the name escapes me) for a long time as a rescue CD for failed drives/corrupted file systems/malware data recovery.

    Every so often I have to pore over my CD case and throw old OS discs out, as I periodically end up adding new ones.
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    kurosaki00kurosaki00 Member Posts: 973
    I think I have knoppix 3.1 cd somewhere... and a ME recovery disk LOL
    I'm guessing the ME recovery disk would be very valued... I mean it was the virus fly man used to infect the aliens computers @ Independence Day.

    You could try to do like some kind of artsy project with it. Put a wooden frame, black background, some cds on it.
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    jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    GOt some original SUSE 4.something from the late 90s somewhere :)
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    MTciscoguyMTciscoguy Member Posts: 552
    jibbajabba wrote: »
    GOt some original SUSE 4.something from the late 90s somewhere :)

    When you are my age, the late 90's don't seem that long ago!

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    jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Said "Hello World" '75 ;)
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