[Coco] Oddball disk format question

[John R. Hogerhuis]

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 06:01, jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
> Willard
> 
> I remember a friend intalling A Unix like OS onto a MAC with 30 
> diskettes. I agree it was not a pretty sight. It seems to me it was an 
> all day afair. 
> 
> james


That's how I started with Linux on a 486... downloading a bunch of
Slackware floppy images from the 'net over FTP. I don't recall whether
it was broadband or dial-up line though...

Later moved to Redhat, then Mandrake, and today all I run is Debian on
my PCs.

-- John.