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Re:Slackware is 21 Years Old by fu86 on Friday July 18, 2014 @03:57AM (#8052091)
This was my first linux distribution and I loved it!
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Re:Slackware is 21 Years Old by mikegriff on Friday July 18, 2014 @04:03AM (#8052101)
It was the first one I installed myself. I spent a long time trying to download all the floppy disk images for A and X over dial up. Trying to do it while on work experience on the only PC that had an internet connection made it all the more fun.
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Re:Slackware is 21 Years Old by pjmlp on Friday July 18, 2014 @04:24AM (#8052143)
My very first as well. Had to install it to a MS-DOS partition and from there to the real Linux partition as IDE CDROM drives were still not properly supported back then.
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Re:Slackware is 21 Years Old by yebyen on Friday July 18, 2014 @03:07PM (#8054984)
ZipSlack? I seem to remember it was called ZipSlack because I actually had a ZIP drive at the time. That was definitely the coolest thing ever.
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Re:Slackware is 21 Years Old by pjmlp on Friday July 18, 2014 @04:42PM (#8055516)
No, a pile of floppy disks.

I cannot remember anylonger the exact version.

It was the last version of Slackware to use a.out executable format and IDE ATAPI had just recently been added. My CDROM IDE wasn't supported during boot time, only after installation, hence the workaround.

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