On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 22:37 -0600, Peter B. Steiger wrote: > OK, that makes sense. It also reminds me of my first Linux system, > installed the week after I bought a new PC and had plenty of room to > play with multiple boot partitions. I went right to redhat.com and > downloaded the latest install (on a *dialup* connection), and amazingly > managed to get a working system going in a few hours despite the fact > that I never bothered to read a single book or website on the subject.
Of course the nice thing about some of the older distros (I started with Redhat 5.0) was how quickly they could be re-installed if you broke it. At one point, I had it down to around 20 minutes to restore things from the install CD if I broke something. Just as well, really, since I got a lot of practice at it. Interestingly, even a single-CD distro like Ubuntu can't install anywhere near that quickly anymore... I wonder why, since the amount of stuff on the CD isn't going to be much different.
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