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Re:Booting a PC from a Vinyl Record by hinkley on Friday January 23, 2026 @03:00PM (#46737111)
The first time I installed Slackware I didn’t have enough spare floppies to get the whole thing, I had to delete some things to do so, and then copying it in the computer lab lead to several dead disks. The installer didn’t yet have a retry feature so every time a disk turned out to be bad I had to make a new copy and start at the beginning. And sometimes that disk would be bad too. So the first time I installed slack I really installed it ten times.

Do not recommend.

Re:Booting a PC from a Vinyl Record by ofalkaed on Friday January 23, 2026 @03:30PM (#46737469)
Up until a few years ago my Slackware install was broken up over 4 flash drives, as Slackware grew I never bothered to buy a new flash drive big enough for it. It was a lot like the old floppy install. Eventually I realized I could just put all the packages on an external drive and greatly simplify things and then I snapped out of the old habit and just bought a few new flash drives.
Re:Booting a PC from a Vinyl Record by medstrom on Saturday January 24, 2026 @05:23AM (#46742392)
That's not so dissimilar to my experience in 2025 with whatever USB drives I can scrounge up around the house!