Re: What to do with old SuSE Media?

rfi_at_usa.com
Date: 03/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:31:17 -0500

Depending on your use you may want to hang onto the old disks. If you
use is at all business at some point in time you may need to reserrect
an old version of the OS to deploy an old version of some third party
software. I have had this come up a couple of times with RedHat and I
felt really dumb wasting time and net resources downloading 6.2 and
7.3 when I had bought boxed copies of both of them and then tossed
them out. I now save at least the media. At some point I might
reduce them to iso images on dvd's but for now they don't take up that
much space.

This is a new thing thanks to Linux. In the old days after a bunch of
years the hardware platform was pretty much retired. Thanks to X86
that is no longer the case. Anybody have a use for dc600's wtih SunOS
4.1.1 on them for Sun3? See what I mean...

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 06:21:30 -0500, James Knott
<james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:

>houghi wrote:
>
>> (Bringing old PC's to them is often a bad idea for the same reason.
>> First ask them)
>
>A friend used to collect old PCs for charity. They had minimum standards
>for what they'd accept, because anything less, was essentially a door
>stop.

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