Yeah that's right kid. Back in the day I had a hard drive that was on /dev/hda1
Not even /dev/sda1 I said hda that's right
I remember those days
Grub???? I used LILO
Installed Slackware from a box of floppies on a spare 486
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@cwebber honey I have a hard drive on /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0
@cwebber I ain't remember shit about LILO except that sinking feeling of it stopping at LI because it failed.
And then the last time this came up learning and how it writes each letter to the when to indicate progress and it's actually possible for it to fail at the other two ones it's just LI was the most common?
@cwebber You haven't installed Linux until you're listening to a 5¼" floppy drive seeking madly because you needed to run two commands to make the installer work:
```
mkswap /dev/fd1
swapon /dev/fd1
```
@nazokiyoubinbou @cwebber Had no choice. When you have 4MB RAM, there's barely enough for the kernel, `init`, `getty` and `bash`.
@cwebber Hah I forgot about LILO! I still remember my first long term Linux distro was running Linux 2.4, and I was very excited to build my own Linux 2.6 kernel from source when it was released.
@cwebber
My earliest Linux experience was probably SLS. I distinctly remember installing it on my work computer in frustration because Windows 3.1 (with a network stack from FTP Software (not to be confused with the ftp program or protocol)) kept crashing whenever the company network was too busy (like whenever a critical release deadline was approaching). 1/2
@cwebber oof got me right in the LI
@cwebber i will say, hda2 is far better then nvme0n1p2
@cwebber
Ouch, do I remember LI... argh...
@cwebber I had a couple of boxes that I couldn't lilo, so I was running loadlin
@cwebber im exactly this old
@cwebber I remember LILO. I remember installing Slackware not on a spare 486 but on my one and only 486, in a dual-boot config with MS-DOS 6.2 on the other partition.
@cwebber Heh, reminds me that my first own computer had a second-hand SCSI HDD, so would be /dev/sda1
A shoebox of floppies. It had to be a shoebox. That was the only way you were allowed to keep them
I'm telling you, Windowmaker was *the shit*. It still is. It still is
Do you remember that StumpWM video with the person with the incredibly deep voice named "male" pronounced mah-lay
Because I remember https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKt_rVO960Q
wow what the fuck every version of this video I find is unplayable
Okay found one semi tolerable
God do I miss StumpWM. LORD do I miss it.
@cwebber memories of ratpoison
@cwebber same. 1994ish. Finally getting X to start and launching Xeyes and I was hooked.