[Cialug] what distros were out in 1996?

[cialug@cialug.org]

I have an old Caldera distribution that I ran on a 233MHz machine.  Don't recall
exactly what version (does 4.2 sound right?) but it included KDE and KOffice. 
Seems to me it was reasonably easy to install.  Might not install directly from
CD, seems like I used rawrite to create boot and root disks.  Also have some
older Redhat distros if you're interested.  Probably have a Slackware distro
that I ran on a 25MHz 386 too.

Jay


> I just got an old Pentium 200MHz machine, with a 1996 Phoenix BIOS.  
> It's got 32 megs ram and an 8 gig hard drive.
> 
> Tried to boot off Mandrake 9.2 (works on wife's laptop) : "no  
> operating system found" -> BIOS message
> 
> Tried to boot off SuSE 9 live CD (works on wife's laptop) : "upgrade  
> your bios" -> SuSE message
> 
> Managed to boot and install OpenBSD 3.4 (works fine on year 2000+  
> computers I've tried it on), but it can't find /usr/bin/sh when it  
> boots, so I have to manually make it load csh instead (at a #  
> prompt). I can see it in /usr/bin when I'm ls'ing around, but the  
> file system gets mounted read only anyway so I can't even create a  
> user account, get a login prompt or anything.
> 
> So now I'm open to see what else I can try and what's easier on me.  
> I'm too much of an amateur to get going on OpenBSD. Was Redhat the  
> way to go in 1996? Where can I get 10 year old distros to try? What  
> do you think is wrong with the BIOS that SuSE and Mandrake won't  
> boot? Thanks!
> 
> warm wishes,
> Darcy
> 
> 
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