Linux Floppy Install (Re: YATYRD)

[Ken Seefried]

From: Doc Shipley <doc at mdrconsult.com>

>   IIRC, Slack v3.3 took 54 1.44MB disks.

Interesting.  

I recall installing something I think was slack with a 0.99 kernel around 1993-4.  The i386 with 5M ram and a 40MB HD that ran it was a sporty box back then.  I remember bitching 'cause it was something more than a dozen floppies or so.  But it had a C compiler, so I could do my homework (and not dial into an AT&T 3b20 or drive in to campus and use a Sun 3).  

And it was my UUCP node: ...!ucbvax!gatech!weasel!ken.  

Good times...good times...

54 floppies?  Wow...you've got more patience than me.

Ken