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".