First Linux Experience

[Dennis Kibbe]

On Monday 26 June 2006 10:35, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> 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!

In case you want to take a trip down memory lane, you can download Slackware v 
1.1.2 here: http://linux.ka.nu :-)

Dennisk