[Cialug] cd hand off - maybe lunch sometime this week?

[David Champion]

Tom Pohl wrote:
> 
> On Nov 13, 2007, at 2:57 PM, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
>>
>> Interesting story, because I once installed slackware this way. I only
>> owned about 7 floppy disks so I had to ride my bike back and forth
>> from my house off-campus to the computer lab at Durham (ISU) in order
>> to create the next few disks.
>>
> 
> That's so crazy because I think I lived across the street from you at
> that time (didn't know you then) and I did the same thing with 10
> disks.  I still remember when the 'D' set was 20 disks, I installed the
> first 10 disks, left it on the install screen and went back to Durham to
> get the 2nd half.
> 
> -Tom

Ah, the good old days. I did a RedHat 4.2 floppy/FTP install over 28k
dial-up - where you boot an install floppy and it downloaded all of the
packages over the modem. It took about 24 hours... I was amazed that the
modem stayed connected the whole time.

-dc