Ubuntu 5.10 on QEMU

Following the celebration of my 20 years with Linux, I wanted to recreate the moment I installed Ubuntu “Breezy Badger” 5.10 for the first time, and with QEMU it was quite easy to do on my modern Fedora 44 environment of 2026. Install and Run First of all I downloaded the install CD for i386 of that old release, still available on the Ubuntu website after all these years. Once that was done, I proceeded to create a QEMU virtual hard disk to install the OS into: $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 ubuntu.qcow2 30G Then, just launch a new virtual machine, booting from the virtual CD-ROM drive first, emulating a gigabyte of RAM, which is a reasonable amount for a computer of 2005: $ qemu-system-i386 \ -m 1024 \ -cdrom ubuntu-5.10-install-i386.iso \ -drive file=ubuntu.qcow2,format=qcow2 \ -boot d \ -no-reboot The VM boots, and you’re immediately taken to the installation process. Select your locale and keyboard, and choose the defaults for the graphics card. Enter your desired hostname, timezone,…