Hi Arne, Just fyi, archive.debian.org or a mirror site has a copy of the distros you have lost a long with the rest of the official Debian releases.
Mike Hosken Sent via my iPhone > On 24/05/2022, at 00:09, sp...@caiway.net wrote: > > On Sat, 21 May 2022 13:33:02 +0800 > Zhang Boyang <zhangboyang...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Indeed, I admit super-big-iso is a crazy idea, and a local mirror is >> more useful in most cases. I think there is a few special cases that a >> super-big-iso might be more useful. >> >> 1) Computers / Virtual Machines isolated from public internet or have no >> network at all. It is convenient to have such an ISO to install software >> on demand. A single file is much more convenient than setting up a local >> mirror. It's also easy to manage or verify integrity, if frequent >> updates are not needed. >> >> 2) Archival purposes. If someone (in future, for example, in 2042) want >> to install a very old debian system, he/she may grab the big ISO and all >> he/she need is that single file. Although it's not easy to grab the file >> in far future, but I guess there is always someone crazy enough to >> archive all files, isn't it? :P >> > > Hi Zhang! > > A very good idea! > > I have local repositories mirrorred with debmirror, all versions. > Suddenly I found my archives of the old distributions were (almost) empty. > > bo is lost > potato is lost > sarge is lost > etch is lost > lenny is lost > > Upstream was deleted and debmirror, well, just mirrored them. > > I spend several hours to find intact repositories for them globally, did not > succeed. > > So having another way of keeping debian history for future generations is a > very good idea in my opinion! > > Arne > >
