What do you do with your old *nix install discs?

[brakthepoet]

I have a fairly large stash of older install discs for *nix distros like Red Hat 9, Fedora Core 1, Mandrake 9.1, FreeBSD 4.8, Gentoo 2004, Knoppix 3.2/3.3/3.5/3.7. 1, and one of the Debian versions earlier than Sarge. All of these distros are up to much newer versions by now.

I can't imagine any reason to keep them around, but it seems like a shame to just throw them away. Any ideas on what to do with perfectly good old distros since which are unlikely to ever be installed?

[wheel]

You need to keep them, for use with any backups. I mark my backups with date, content, distro and version. That way if I ever need to restore an archived copy from two years ago, I've got the matching distro to start with.

Other than that, no reason I can discern.

[j4mes]

I use CD-RWs for burning distros - it makes it very easy to know what to do with them when they're out of date :-)

[shigamoto]

If they are originals (from the developers or from a magazine) you can always try to sell them. I sold some Red Hat discs on an auctionsite, and got pretty well paid.

[SeanW]

I pitch 'em. I try to install off the Internet or local mirror to avoid this in the first place.

Sean

[brakthepoet]

Thanks, everyone, for your replies. I kind of had the feeling that most of them were coasters at this point.

>> If they are originals (from the developers or from a magazine) you can always try to sell them <<

Hmm, shigamoto, I hadn't thought of that. I'll give it a try of a couple of them.

[coopster]

They make great ceiling tiles.