On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, jeff wrote:
> Eben King wrote:
>
> >Wait... I didn't use an installer for Slackware in circa 1994 (don't
> >remember what version... first thing I did was upgrade to 1.2.12).
> >
> I just checked my cd and Slack 2 has the sources for kernel 1.3,
1.3? A development version?
> so you must have been using Slack 1 if you upgraded to to 1.2.12.
I don't remember if I had a choice (I think I did, or maybe of method),
but I used 13-20 floppies with *.tgz files copied onto them through OS/2.
Don't remember how I bootstrapped my way into an ext2 filesystem. Maybe
some of the floppies were bootable, written with rawrite.
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