stefanha 11 years ago

Hi, I run the QEMU Advent Calendar and hope you enjoy the images that the QEMU community has put together for your holiday season enjoyment.

We still have a few slots free so if you have a cool disk image to contribute, get in touch! stefanha at gmail com

Rules: Must be freely distributable (e.g. open source). Small image size is appreciated.

  • 4ad 11 years ago

    Wow, this is really good stuff. I've seen advent calendars of other open source project, but this trumps them all, in my opinion. Congrats!

  • voltagex_ 11 years ago

    I love this kind of computer archaeology (for lack of a better term). Do you have any instructions on how to build the images from the ground up? Finding the right install images and packages for say, Debian 0.93 can be quite a challenge.

    • stefanha 11 years ago

      An early Debian image would be very cool. The Slackware 1.01 download is actually still available at http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-1.01/.

      Gerd, who put together the image, had to find the right emulated hardware that the old kernel knows how to talk to. It doesn't know about PCI devices (!!) so only ISA devices will work :).

      • voltagex_ 11 years ago

        Is there an IRC channel I can hang out in for this project?

  • agumonkey 11 years ago

    Amazing, simply amazing.

e12e 11 years ago

How bizarre that the Slack image is 30 MB (compressed!). I suppose it really is a full system. I'm sure there must be some of those old Linux images out there that managed to fit both the kernel and the initial ram disk on a single 1.44 MB floppy ?