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

Tim Wilson tim_linux at wilson-home.com
Wed Nov 14 14:19:05 CST 2007


This is way off the topic, but I saw this the other day, and it kinda fits
in with "the good ol' days".  What would happen if the TV show "24" was set
in 1994?
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1788161

On Nov 14, 2007 2:13 PM, David Champion <dchampion at visionary.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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-- 
Tim
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