I did a similar thing, but it was Mandrake. I bought it primarily to save having the multi-gb download over 56k. I remember doing a lot of fighting with '3dfx'

I did a similar thing, but it was Mandrake. I bought it primarily to save having the multi-gb download over 56k. I remember doing a lot of fighting with '3dfx' drivers, X, and network drivers. I only had one PC, so I had to run to a friend's house to google [edit: search for things on altavista] things, then I'd bash my head against my keyboard all evening. I found debian soon after that, and though I've jumped around a little, I run debian still today.