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Not everybody missed out -- I may not have done 40 floppies of WordPerfect, but I did install my first Debian (3.0 Woody) from a boot floppy, a root floppy, 4 d

• adamb0mb1 13y ago
  Oh man. Same experience, different distro. Slackware was a bunch of disks too (but I don't remember exactly how many)
  • philsnow 13y ago
    It came on different disk sets; you really only needed the 'a' (base) set, but the 'n'etworking set was useful if you wanted the thing to connect to anything else. IIRC there were also d: development (gcc, make, etc) e: emacs (I think; I used vim at the time) x: X11 base system xap: X applications y: bsd games probably several more