11 Apr
2008
11 Apr
'08
7:55 p.m.
On 12/04/2008, Roy J. Tellason <rtellason at verizon.net> wrote:
I've been running Slackware since 1999 when I
started with 4.0. And there was
an awful lot of that setup that turned out to be very much DIY. I also added
stuff later on that wasn't present during the install (like an ISA sound
card) so that and X and a bunch of other stuff all turned out to be DIY as
well.
The first Linux distro I ever tried to actually /install/ was
Slackware, on my notebook: a very odd 486DX50 (not DX2/50) with 8MB of
RAM and onboard SCSI. I never did get it to run. That was '97 or so,
and while I knew some UNIX, I knew next to nothing about Linux. I ghad
played with Lasermoon's Linux-FT, an early LiveCD - in fact, I think
the very first - but that doesn't really count as an "install". I
never got it booting off my hard disk.
However, I have tried Slackware since then, on some fairly recent
version - 10.0, I think. I found it nearly as forbidding as it was a
decade ago, and these days, I'm fairly well-used to Debian, Ubuntu,
Red Hat, SuSE, Mandriva and many others.
Anyhow, I'm not sure what the hardware is that
you're messing with there,
but if you want to get some Slackware running on it let me know.
Well, hey, if Slackware is the only modern that still supports MCA, I
might give it a shot. Does it? I don't think modern Debian does...
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