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[ILUG] my first Linux

[ILUG] my first Linux

Frank Duignan frank.duignan at gmail.com
Thu Aug 25 14:38:46 IST 2011


I think it was that one for me too and I had the same problems: not
quite compatible sound card (windows sound system?) and I had to copy
to floppies first before doing an install as the CD drive was not
recognized.  I think the hostname was 'darkstar' by default.


On 25 August 2011 14:32, FRLinux <frlinux at frlinux.eu> wrote:
> November 1995 for me too, got slackware 2.0 on a CD, since there was no
> way to recognize my CD player (Mitsumi 4x), had to copy the full
> distribution to a DOS partition then use loadlin with it. It used kernel
> 1.0.9 which came without support for my soundblaster clone card. At this
> time I started spending more time on the command line and less under
> Windows, happy days.
>
> Steph
>
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