On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:05:41PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > Times have changed  boy ... you guys will surely  miss the fun
> > of installing  a full Slackware  distro on a 250  mb partition
> > from 1.44 mb diskettes ... In those days installation from HDD
> 
> No, I was not installing unixen in those days ... but yeah, I do see your
> point about a HDD install being useful in such cases.

Heh heh heh,

I remember installing Slackware 1.0 [1] off 90-odd floppies -- and then
having the 88th floppy die on me. Then it was a 2km trudge to the nearest CDROM
drive...

-- Biju

[1] I'm not very sure of the version, but I do remember that it used Kernel
0.9.x


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