Linux Floppy Install (Re: YATYRD)

[Ethan Dicks]

On 9/30/05, Ken Seefried <ken at seefried.com> wrote:
> From: Doc Shipley <doc at mdrconsult.com>
>
> >   IIRC, Slack v3.3 took 54 1.44MB disks.
>
> 54 floppies?  Wow...you've got more patience than me.

I did it *once*... after that, I loaded the install images on a DOS
partition and did a partition-to-partition install (UMSDOS for those
that remember).  Mind you, I downloaded 100% of it at 2400 baud.

This was on my first-ever PC, an AMD 386-DX/40 that I bought in April,
1992, at the Dayton Hamfest for around $250 for the board and CPU and
another $250 for 4MB of RAM.  I wasn't able to install Linux for about
a year, until Slackware added native SCSI support (coming from an
Amiga and Mac background, I only owned SCSI disks).  I want to say it
was kernel version 0.95 when that happened - all more than 10 years
ago, of course.

My little brother started with Slackware and runs it to this day.

-ethan