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Debian Releases > Debian Slink

http://www.debian.org/banners/2.1/ossf0302en.gif

Slink is the code name for a former Stable Debian distribution. It was released on March 9th 1998 as Debian GNU/Linux 2.1, It was superseded by Debian/Potato on 15 Aug 2000.

http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/ - Debian/Slink Release Information

See Slink point-releases ChangeLog

Architectures

New Features

Packages & versions
  • apt : (not available)
  • kernel : linux 2.0.34 ; 2.0.35 ;2.0.36 ; 2.0.38
  • libc : libc6 2.0.7
  • gcc : 2.7.2.3
  • X-server : XFree86 3.3.2a

The List of packages provided are available at http://archive.debian.net/.

FAQ

Q) Any good book about debian/Slink ?

see http://www.act.cmis.csiro.au/gjw/linux/debian.pdf (or google for "The (OLD) Debian GNU/Linux Cookbook" Graham Williams).

See also :

How to build a CD ?

Let me quote Kazutoshi Ando WWW:

  1. download pseudo-image-kit from http://www.uk.debian.org/~costar/pseudo-image-kit/
    Windows: pseudo-image-kit-2.0.zip md5sum=aec918c787255cee69e09f90f21599a7 (use google)
    Unix: : pseudo-image-kit-2.0.tar.gz md5sum=66252c5b4b23412e72bc9309ae69c19f

  2. uncompress pseudo-image-kit.
  3. Read the Readme file.
  4. Getting list file
    http://www.uk.debian.org/debian-cd/cd-images/2.1_r4/i386/binary-i386-1.list
    (note this file isn't available anymore on the www today [2007])

  5. make pseudo image (about 2 hours)
    make-pseudo-image binary-i386-1.list ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian
    (note: you should use archive.debian.org..)

  6. Change the file name
     move pseudo-image binary-i386-1.iso 

  7. rsync (15 min)
    rsync --verbose --progress --stats --block-size=8192 www.uk.debian.org::debian-cd/2.1_r4/i386/binary-i386-1.iso 

  8. Check
    md5sum -b binary-i386-1.iso


InfoMagicDebianGnuLinux2.1r2.jpg
Note the former blue eyed pinguin Debian logo. (this cd cover is probably copyrighted ?InfoMagic).