[lug] For love or money: 1994 Yggdrasil Plug-and-Play Linux CD

[Neal McBurnett]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 06:48:29PM -0600, David L. Anselmi wrote:
> Neal McBurnett wrote:
> >A friend is very very interested in finding an installation CD or
> >.iso for the Yggdrasil Linux Release circa 1994.
> 
> Well, shoot.  My first Linux CDs were the Linux Internet Archives
> (4CDs!) from 1995.  But no Yggdrasil.  I remember considering Yggdrasil
> though.

Yeah - Yggdrasil wouldn't have been in a public archive like that.
Not only was it commercial, it was somehow closed at least to some
degree - e.g. I heard the isos weren't released to the archives.

So thanks to Walter, who I've contacted....

> >Help finding a PC of ~1994 vintage to load the CD on would also be
> >appreciated, since he doubts the old CD will load on a modern
> >IDE-based PC.
> 
> I have a mid-90s 486 around here somewhere, I'm sure it'd do.  But I 
> think even then it was IDE (except for the CDROM, I got a SCSI one of 
> those).  So new hardware might do better than you think.

Thanks - we'll check it out first.

Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/

> Dave