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Is this worth anything

  • 21-03-2019 8:05pm
    #1
    QwertyWerty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 ✭


    Hi,

    I found an old Linux SuSE installation box from 2004 in my house, it’s a personal edition (8.2) with all of the original content, CDs, manual, stickers etc.

    Does anyone know if it would be worth anything? Might try selling on EBay.


Comments

  • #2
    FishOnABike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,635 ✭✭✭FishOnABike


    Current SUSE version is 15.0, openSUSE is available for free (as in beer) so unless someone was interested in it as a collectors item I'd doubt there'd be a market for it.


  • #3
    QwertyWerty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 ✭QwertyWerty


    FishOnABike wrote: »
    Current SUSE version is 15.0, openSUSE is available for free (as in beer) so unless someone was interested in it as a collectors item I'd doubt there'd be a market for it.

    Yea I was more thinking people might collect them, since posting this I found a similar one for sale for 20 quid so guess not!


  • #4
    human 19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 854 ✭✭✭human 19


    would it even work anymore? I have a CD of Mint 5. cant remember if its live or not. Must pop it in and see what happens


  • #5
    rayzercork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83 ✭✭rayzercork


    the distros will run but you wont be able to install, or update anything as the repos are most likely killed off years ago


  • #6
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,153 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    rayzercork wrote: »
    the distros will run but you wont be able to install, or update anything as the repos are most likely killed off years ago

    We're talking so old here that the CDs (DVD images were rare) came with all the packages - but there's still copies of the repos and update repos, you'll need to update YUM/YOU/YaST/whatever that ancient a version used though.

    http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/discontinued/i386/8.2/suse/

    http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/discontinued/i386/update/8.2/rpm/i586/

    However, it wasn't an LTS equivalent (don't think SuSE had any at the time) so it ran out of updates in 2005

    You may find it hard to boot on a machine that doesn't have very complete legacy BIOS support; and you will need your hard drive in IDE compatability mode rather than AHCI as I'm pretty certain kernel 2.4 doesn't have AHCI support. Should be able to configure a generic VESA mode for graphics, and it might even support an Intel gigabit NIC.


    I spent a long time using a non-Linux system last updated in early 2001 until some time this decade, and it was a struggle - and that was despite third party drivers and updates!


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