Happy 25th Anniversary Slackware Linux

Re:Happy 25th Anniversary Slackware Linux by praptak on Monday July 16, 2018 @05:21PM (#17545244)

My earliest memory of Linux is a bunch of dark blue 3.5 inch disks that I used to install Slackware from. I think that GCC required additional 4 disks and X 6 of them? Good times.

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Re:Happy 25th Anniversary Slackware Linux by nas on Monday July 16, 2018 @11:08PM (#17547006)

Slackware and 3.5 inch disks for me too. If I remember correctly, I was going to install SLS Linux but this "Slackware" thing was the new hotness. Time flies having fun I guess. Still running Linux on my workstation.

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Re:Happy 25th Anniversary Slackware Linux by schoen on Monday July 16, 2018 @06:12PM (#17545614)

Oh wow, I remember that!

http://www.slackware.com/install/softwaresets.php

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Re:Happy 25th Anniversary Slackware Linux by noonespecial on Monday July 16, 2018 @05:24PM (#17545277)

Boot, root, get the 3com drivers in. Good times.

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Re:Happy 25th Anniversary Slackware Linux by MPSimmons on Monday July 16, 2018 @07:50PM (#17546156)

disk set n1, iirc

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Re:Happy 25th Anniversary Slackware Linux by pjmlp on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @04:39AM (#17548227)

Slackware 2.0 required several of them, or in alternative dump them into the hard disk on an MS-DOS partition and point the installer to the location.

There were CD-ROM variants, but this was about the time EIDE support was still being added, so only those lucky SCSI owners could actually take advantage of it.

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