First Linux Experience

[Kurt Granroth]

On Monday 26 June 2006 06:51, Jerry Davis wrote:
> I remember now that Slackware had 23 floppies, but that was for the
> system right? there were extra floppies for other stuff like, c, and
> other things if I remember correctly. Right? I remember my Dad and I
> getting 50 floppies to copy on. Amazing.

I went digging through some archives to find out more "real" numbers, not 
based on my memory.  Turns out that the 23 floppy figure was from the 
original Slackware 1.0.  By the time I installed it in v2.0, the arguable 
base system (a, ap, d, n, x, xap) was 27 disks.  I installed the entire 
thing, though... a full 66 disks!