First Linux Experience

[Michael]

My first linux experience was when a friend told me about Linux and I went to 
the GCC installfest to put linux on my box. At that time it was redhat v? in  
2002 (i think) (this is the installfest where Hans got the red fedora). Well, 
I took it home and couldn't get the internet going (unbeknownst to me I had a 
winmodem). After I discovered that I bought a real modem (USR internal) and 
got online. Or maybe the frustration led me to dump redhat. About six months 
later tecnomage came to my house and put mandrake on the box. Something else 
was wrong so I never booted linux (as with redhat). About a year after that I 
put debian/mepis on and everything worked. I have happily been running Mepis 
since and within the past 6 months increased the size of my system partition 
by deleting my windows partition and reinstalling Mepis onto /dev/hda1.

if you care:

                                               before

hda1 		    hda2 		      hda3 			     hda4
windows		linux sys		linux home		linux home	

					        after

hda1 		    	   	 		      hda3 			     hda4
linux sys						linux home		linux home