How to find version of reallu old Debian machine?

[Karl F. Larsen]

stan wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 08:00:41PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>   
>> 2009/3/21 stan <stanb at panix.com>:
>>     
>>> I've got a really old version of Debian running on an internal amchine. As
>>> a matter offact the kerrnel was last compiled in 2003!
>>>
>>> I want to try to find a pacjage (.deb) to install on this machine, and I
>>> need to know the version of Debian on this machine to start googling.
>>>
>>> How do I determine this?
>>>
>>>       
>> $ cat /etc/issue
>>
>>     
> Tried that
>
>
> Debian GNU/\s testing/unstable \n \l
>
> This system is too old for that :-(
>
>   
Works fine on my Ubuntu.

karl at karl-hardy:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 8.04.2 \n \l

karl


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