That's how I did it in 1995. I printed a few howto's, downloaded 27 or so Slackware floppy disk images, copied those onto actual disks, and biked home and boote

That's how I did it in 1995. I printed a few howto's, downloaded 27 or so Slackware floppy disk images, copied those onto actual disks, and biked home and booted from the first disk to start the installation process. At some point I had an issue with a corrupted disk so I had to bike back to the university to create a replacement. Following the howto, I got a booting system on my PC (dual booting with MS Dos/windows 3.x). And then using the bundled documentation, I was able to get X up and running, figured out how to rebuild the kernel with the sound drivers I needed, etc. Fun times.