[ILUG] my first Linux

[Rafiq Maniar]

Ah darkstar, definitely brings back memories. I renamed it dorkstar. I was
about 13 :P

I remember installing Slackware from floppies. There were 7-8 of them as far
as I can remember. I was at summer camp in DCU, and I was learning C
programming on the local MUD.

I think it was actually summer 1996 for me but apparently its the same
version as you guys were using in 95!

How they let me reinstall the CS lab computers is beyond me ;)

So, happy 20th birthday Linux.


On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Frank Duignan <frank.duignan at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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