30 Sep
2005
30 Sep
'05
3:22 p.m.
Ken Seefried wrote:
From: Doc Shipley <doc at mdrconsult.com>
Probably still SLS then, although I could be wrong. My memory is of
around 50 floppies for a full install too, although only a fraction of
that was needed to get a networked box up and running and then install
stuff without the need for floppies.
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).
Same deal for me; I could do pretty much all my uni assignments on my
own PC then armed with beer and music, rather than go find a terminal on
campus in order to talk to a Sun box.
I was running off an 89MB drive (and was fortunate enough to have a
486/33 with a whopping 8MB of memory), but I used to boot DOS from that
disk as well as SLS Linux (using OS/2's Boot Manager IIRC).
Ahh, fond memories of the days when PCs, software, and the 'net were
actually fun..
cheers
Jules