[gentoo-dev] Gentoo 18th Anniversary Edition - Help Needed

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo 18th Anniversary Edition - Help Needed

[Roy Bamford]

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Team,

Its my 18th anniversary of installing Gentoo. A number of coincidences gave rise to
my original liveCD turning up when I was searching for bits to get an old system to boot
just one more time to get some forgotten data off its hard drives. I just had to try it out.

Anyway, one thing lead to another and now I have a 2003 Gentoo install as a Virtualbox
guest https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:NeddySeagoon/Historical_Gentoo all except 10 
files. It boots, GNOME and KDE run, it won't play blurays but it has a few bits missing,
so its not quite original. 

Here's where I reed your help. The missing distfiles are

MD5 0d9151faa28fcbdff6b37559ce4895f5 kdegraphics-3.1.1a.diff.bz2
MD5 38adc94a4953a6b29e8619c25dda4887 4.2.0-4.2.1.diff.gz 54763
MD5 43e5e0209a9400b946f38d7c731c968c sis_drv_src_210303-1.tar.gz 378880
MD5 45133b34f10632f3ffc012401e2a4b19 util-linux-2.11y-crypt-gentoo.patch.gz 18843
MD5 4d84dd6a0f00d84850f2765766c6b780 kdebase-3.1.1a.diff.bz2
MD5 50891a2431cc829d98829e385e2c452c XFree86-4.2.1-patches-1.2.tar.bz2 405424
MD5 5687b1f9d7e0698f63c35c53322c786a kdelibs-3.1.1a.diff.bz2
MD5 6dc1978d748dc6519933743b0337f718 pam_login-3.10.tar.bz2 131130
MD5 aaeb8f8b276a6849f7a570097d69788e glide3-headers.tar.bz2 14564
MD5 d5cc6a93c7d3ad2eb02bc637a1de9cf3 net-tools-1.60-gentoo-extra.tar.bz2 5785

If your Gentoo history goes back as far as mine and you still have those files, please
share them with me. 

-- 
Regards,

Roy Bamford
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 18th Anniversary Edition - Help Needed

[Benda Xu]

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Roy,

Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@gentoo.org> writes:

> Its my 18th anniversary of installing Gentoo. A number of coincidences gave rise to
> my original liveCD turning up when I was searching for bits to get an old system to boot
> just one more time to get some forgotten data off its hard drives. I just had to try it out.
>
> Anyway, one thing lead to another and now I have a 2003 Gentoo install as a Virtualbox
> guest https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:NeddySeagoon/Historical_Gentoo all except 10 
> files. It boots, GNOME and KDE run, it won't play blurays but it has a few bits missing,
> so its not quite original. 
>
> Here's where I reed your help. The missing distfiles are
>
> MD5 0d9151faa28fcbdff6b37559ce4895f5 kdegraphics-3.1.1a.diff.bz2
> MD5 38adc94a4953a6b29e8619c25dda4887 4.2.0-4.2.1.diff.gz 54763
> MD5 43e5e0209a9400b946f38d7c731c968c sis_drv_src_210303-1.tar.gz 378880
> MD5 45133b34f10632f3ffc012401e2a4b19 util-linux-2.11y-crypt-gentoo.patch.gz 18843
> MD5 4d84dd6a0f00d84850f2765766c6b780 kdebase-3.1.1a.diff.bz2
> MD5 50891a2431cc829d98829e385e2c452c XFree86-4.2.1-patches-1.2.tar.bz2 405424
> MD5 5687b1f9d7e0698f63c35c53322c786a kdelibs-3.1.1a.diff.bz2
> MD5 6dc1978d748dc6519933743b0337f718 pam_login-3.10.tar.bz2 131130
> MD5 aaeb8f8b276a6849f7a570097d69788e glide3-headers.tar.bz2 14564
> MD5 d5cc6a93c7d3ad2eb02bc637a1de9cf3 net-tools-1.60-gentoo-extra.tar.bz2 5785
>
> If your Gentoo history goes back as far as mine and you still have those files, please
> share them with me. 

I regret that I did not understand GNU/Linux back in 2003 to help you.
This is indeed a cool project to celebrate your 18th anniversary of
Gentoo ;)  Please share some videos after you finish that.

Benda

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 18th Anniversary Edition - Help Needed

[Roy Bamford]

On 19/04/2021 15:55, Benda Xu wrote:
> Roy,
> 
> Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@gentoo.org> writes:
> 
>> Its my 18th anniversary of installing Gentoo. A number of coincidences gave rise to
>> my original liveCD turning up when I was searching for bits to get an old system to boot
>> just one more time to get some forgotten data off its hard drives. I just had to try it out.
>>
>> Anyway, one thing lead to another and now I have a 2003 Gentoo install as a Virtualbox
>> guest https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:NeddySeagoon/Historical_Gentoo all except 10
>> files. It boots, GNOME and KDE run, it won't play blurays but it has a few bits missing,
>> so its not quite original.
>>
>> Here's where I reed your help. The missing distfiles are
>>
>> MD5 0d9151faa28fcbdff6b37559ce4895f5 kdegraphics-3.1.1a.diff.bz2
>> MD5 38adc94a4953a6b29e8619c25dda4887 4.2.0-4.2.1.diff.gz 54763
>> MD5 43e5e0209a9400b946f38d7c731c968c sis_drv_src_210303-1.tar.gz 378880
>> MD5 45133b34f10632f3ffc012401e2a4b19 util-linux-2.11y-crypt-gentoo.patch.gz 18843
>> MD5 4d84dd6a0f00d84850f2765766c6b780 kdebase-3.1.1a.diff.bz2
>> MD5 50891a2431cc829d98829e385e2c452c XFree86-4.2.1-patches-1.2.tar.bz2 405424
>> MD5 5687b1f9d7e0698f63c35c53322c786a kdelibs-3.1.1a.diff.bz2
>> MD5 6dc1978d748dc6519933743b0337f718 pam_login-3.10.tar.bz2 131130
>> MD5 aaeb8f8b276a6849f7a570097d69788e glide3-headers.tar.bz2 14564
>> MD5 d5cc6a93c7d3ad2eb02bc637a1de9cf3 net-tools-1.60-gentoo-extra.tar.bz2 5785
>>
>> If your Gentoo history goes back as far as mine and you still have those files, please
>> share them with me.
> 
> I regret that I did not understand GNU/Linux back in 2003 to help you.
> This is indeed a cool project to celebrate your 18th anniversary of
> Gentoo ;)  Please share some videos after you finish that.
> 
> Benda
> 

Benda,

It works now, its just not quite authentic. Follow the instructions in 
the wiki page I linked, or if you can't wait, there is a link to a root 
filesystem image for Virtualbox. I have hosted all the source files I 
have found, so go ahead and do a 2003 stage1 install.

KDE is 3.1.1 not 3.1.1a

pam_login is 3.11, not 3.10.

net-tools-1.60-gentoo-extra.tar.bz2 I had to remake, based on the 
comments in the ebuild. The file size and md5sum don't match but I used 
2021 tar to put the bits together.

XFree is there, just not the version portage wanted to install.

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Roy Bamford
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 18th Anniversary Edition - Help Needed

[Philip Webb]

210419 Roy Bamford wrote:
> Its my 18th anniversary of installing Gentoo.

You beat me by  6 mth .  I had recently built my 2nd machine
& had been using Mandrake in the 1st, but they were slow with their release.
I tried Suse + Slackware, but couldn't get them set up properly,
so I thought I might as well try that new thing people were talking about.
I followed the install instructions faithfully, booted
& found myself with a working version of Gentoo !  I've never looked back.

> A number of coincidences gave rise to my original liveCD turning up
> when I was searching for bits to get an old system to boot
> just one more time to get some forgotten data off its hard drives.
> I just had to try it out.

I still have the original CDs for Mandrake from 2000, my 1st Linux,
but I've never tried installing them again anywhere.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 18th Anniversary Edition - Help Needed

[William Kenworthy]

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On 20/4/21 4:14 am, Philip Webb wrote:
> 210419 Roy Bamford wrote:
>> Its my 18th anniversary of installing Gentoo.
> You beat me by  6 mth .  I had recently built my 2nd machine
> & had been using Mandrake in the 1st, but they were slow with their release.
> I tried Suse + Slackware, but couldn't get them set up properly,
> so I thought I might as well try that new thing people were talking about.
> I followed the install instructions faithfully, booted
> & found myself with a working version of Gentoo !  I've never looked back.
>
>> A number of coincidences gave rise to my original liveCD turning up
>> when I was searching for bits to get an old system to boot
>> just one more time to get some forgotten data off its hard drives.
>> I just had to try it out.
> I still have the original CDs for Mandrake from 2000, my 1st Linux,
> but I've never tried installing them again anywhere.
>

I am a little earlier with gentoo  - but unfortunately I don't have any
media/machines from that era - great project!  I started with Redhat 4.0
sometime in the late 90's.

BillK


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[gentoo-dev] Gentoo 18th Anniversary Edition - Help Needed

[Torokhov Sergey]

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 18th Anniversary Edition - Help Needed

[Robin H. Johnson]

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Here's two I have so far
https://dev.gentoo.org/~robbat2/neddy/

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:24:41AM +0100, Roy Bamford wrote:
> Here's where I reed your help. The missing distfiles are
> MD5 38adc94a4953a6b29e8619c25dda4887 4.2.0-4.2.1.diff.gz 54763
> MD5 d5cc6a93c7d3ad2eb02bc637a1de9cf3 net-tools-1.60-gentoo-extra.tar.bz2 5785
> 
> If your Gentoo history goes back as far as mine and you still have those files, please
> share them with me. 
I am reasonable certain that I have an archive with the others, but it's
a media accessibility problem: they are stuck on either an LTO1 or LTO3
tape, and while I have an LTO drive that might work, I don't have a
suitable external SAS controller on hand. It should probably be a
project for me to media-shift those old backups onto cloud storage.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 18th Anniversary Edition - Help Needed

[Roy Bamford]

On 20/04/2021 06:04, Torokhov Sergey wrote:
> I have only gentoo 2004.3 installation/live cd + packages cd. I 
> installed it in VBox in 2019: 
> https://www.linux.org.ru/images/18736/original.png 
> <https://www.linux.org.ru/images/18736/original.png>
> 
> For some packages sources are available but additional patches are 
> unreachable now. And browser can't work with "modern" internet :(
> 
> I have a PC with gentoo last updated in 2009/2010 :D
> 

Your screenshot with OpenOffice has given me an idea :)
I could add things to the basic install I have now but every time I
do that the download Virtual Box disk image gets bigger, however,
that would make sure I had the sources.

You need to update that 2009/2010 Gentoo.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:NeddySeagoon/HOWTO_Update_Old_Gentoo
That page needs to be cleaned up now that CVS has gone.

All tho old Gentoo stuff I have is available over http.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 18th Anniversary Edition - Help Needed

[Roy Bamford]

On 20/04/2021 06:31, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> Here's two I have so far
> https://dev.gentoo.org/~robbat2/neddy/
> 
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:24:41AM +0100, Roy Bamford wrote:
>> Here's where I reed your help. The missing distfiles are
>> MD5 38adc94a4953a6b29e8619c25dda4887 4.2.0-4.2.1.diff.gz 54763
>> MD5 d5cc6a93c7d3ad2eb02bc637a1de9cf3 net-tools-1.60-gentoo-extra.tar.bz2 5785
>>
>> If your Gentoo history goes back as far as mine and you still have those files, please
>> share them with me.
> I am reasonable certain that I have an archive with the others, but it's
> a media accessibility problem: they are stuck on either an LTO1 or LTO3
> tape, and while I have an LTO drive that might work, I don't have a
> suitable external SAS controller on hand. It should probably be a
> project for me to media-shift those old backups onto cloud storage.
> 

Robin,

Thank you.

I have a similar media problem with a pile of 5 1/4" floppies. A have a 
drive that reads all the 5 1/4" formats and a motherboard to connect it 
to ... until I replace this 12 year old system.

USB to Floppy interfaces won't do it as they are all made for the data 
rate used in 3 1/2" floppies.

Maybe I'll just move this system along my desk and put it under my
APPLE ][ :)

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Roy Bamford
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 18th Anniversary Edition - Help Needed

[Peter Stuge]

Great idea and happy anniversary! :)

Roy Bamford wrote:
> Here's where I reed your help.

I can't help with that.


Roy Bamford wrote:
> I have a similar media problem with a pile of 5 1/4" floppies. A have a 
> drive that reads all the 5 1/4" formats and a motherboard to connect it 
> to ... until I replace this 12 year old system.
> 
> USB to Floppy interfaces won't do it as they are all made for the data 
> rate used in 3 1/2" floppies.

But with this. Look at these projects:

https://cowlark.com/fluxengine/
https://github.com/keirf/Greaseweazle

And these ready-to-buy products:

https://shop.deviceside.com/prod/FC5025
https://www.kryoflux.com/


Kind regards

//Peter