Re: : Becoming a Linux Hacker?

Ming Lei (Mlei@corp.ultratech.com)
Tue, 12 Oct 1999 17:59:51 -0700

On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 05:12:18PM +0200, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 11:35:10AM -0700, Ming Lei wrote:
> > I am also the one who is interested in compiling old kernel, like
> > v0.0.1 or v1.0, and booting it. However, I had difficulties to compile
> > those acient kernels, for example, in link stage, a lot of symbols in
> > x86 assembly code(head.S is one) remains undefined. Noticed here is
> > that I used current gcc compiler, like 2.7.2 or egcs, not the one to
> > used to compile those acient kernels(maybe 2.4). I hope to get gcc2.4
> > but nowhere to find it. I posted the help several weeks ago and
> > unfortunately didnt get any answers. SO, it remains a future excise for
> > me. Hope this email may get some response from the linux community.
> I remember Eric Youngdale posting saying he'd updated 1.0.9 to work with
> modern compilers and C libraries. 0.0.1 is a lost hope; you need minix
> and gcc 1.x as I remember.

On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 18:58:11 +0200, Jens Benecke <jens@pinguin.conetix.de> wrote:
>I have an old LST 1.8 distribution on CD here, containing a full Linux
>distribution with kernel 1.0.9, gcc of the same age, XFree 2.something and
>a load of other tools. Runs fine in VMWare :-)

>If anyone wants those bits I can put them up my FTP server. most of the
>utilities are just a couple MB... the whole distribution is a boggling
>120MB (or something) in size (wow!!). :-)

Hello Jens,

Could you put that CD on your FTP server, and maybe as well as some linux public sites so if someone needs to install old version of Linux, he can still get it? Let linux-kernel email list know and cc to me also. Thank you very much for helping.

Ming




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