Ben Lutgens wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 01:14:37PM -0600, Shawn wrote:
> >Good luck!  I remember my first Linux install....
>
> Me too, hours of RAWRITE.EXE and 24 floppies of slackware! God that sucked!
>
> And when done you still had to spend days getting X3 working right.

Slackware 2.1, I think.  Kernel 1.59.
You could not get UNIX at home back then, except a very expensive SCO that had
to have specific
hardware.  And there was nothing to run on it.
Only other choice was Yggdrasil (sp?).

I remember booting Slackware up for the first time, incredulous that all the
floppies had worked.
I nearly hyperventilated.

That was the day I became "root".