7 Feb
2018
7 Feb
'18
4:44 p.m.
On 7 Feb 2018, at 09:39, emanuel stiebler <emu(a)e-bbes.com> wrote:
Absolutely. In those days it was all about CHS numbers (I also cut my teeth with 0.12
floppies and then SLS, I recently found my X1-X10 “white” floppies with the X11
packages…).
Arrigo
To install
Linux (I cut my teeth on SLS 0.99pl(largelyforgotten) ) you
had to do something with sectors and the like. And if you didn't know
about sectors, you screwed up and learnt damn fast. It's quite an
education re-installing something because the file system won't fit on
the miniscule partition you've made for it, and you pay attention this
time!!!
But wasn't it the same on *BSD too? If you didn't have a disk which was
supported, and had the right entries already you sat there for a while
with the calculator ;-)