Hmm, installing stories?

Right; I remember the first linux install I did, it must have been slackware or maybe SLS, cannot be sure after all the time passed. Anyway, the install was from a pile of floppies, maybe a stack of 12 or so 3,5"HD disks. (side note, I must still have them somewhere, since last month I found my MSDOS 6.2 install disks dating from the same era...)

Anyway, a friend of mine showed up on my doorstep one day with this pile of floppies and told me there's a new Unix-like OS for PC's, and it would work just fine on my brand new 386sx with whopping 4MB of DRAM! (and a huge HDD of 40MB which I was really proud of)

We spent that night installing Linux on my workstation and drinking a considerable amount of beer during the process. The installation was fairly lengthy and not that straightforward as it did require both compiling the kernel for the device, and after finally getting the console up, compiling X for my graphics board, a lightning-fast Tseng Labs card that I had imported from Taiwan myself.

What a joy when sometime in the morning we finally had mwm running up on a graphics display!