On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Peter Corlett wrote: Debian releases were available on cdrom from third parties but I don't seem to remember there being official iso images for the earlier releases. I used to build them myself and burn my own CDR discs. It was similar with RedHat. You could download all the files to make your own iso images and discs, but they also had "official" discs available (with a small book and technical support) if you wanted to spend a good bit of money on them. I still have many of those discs, but they are currently tucked away in my 500 disc cdrom jukebox which doesn't have a computer attached to it right now, so it will be awhile before I can retrieve them (I'm on the hunt for a specific type of embedded computer to replace the old desktop computer that I formerly used to operate the jukebox).