[ILUG] my first Linux

[Pawel Slabiak]

On 25/08/11 15:47, Glen Gray wrote:
> I think I was in the same position actually. I'd a SoundBlaster 16 that had the CD-ROM connected to it, is that right ? Hard to remember now.
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> I remember spending a while making floppies from all those tgz files.
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> Now I think about it, I think that's probably where most of my missing Amiga games went :)
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> On 25 Aug 2011, at 14:38, Frank Duignan wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
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>> 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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Yepp  NE2000 (BNC 10Mbit ) and SoudBlaster16 has been almost standard at 
those days actually....seems to me almost incredible now days.....

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