I have the answer to reducing evaporation

"Cybe R. Wizard" Cybe_R_Wizard@WizardsTower wrote in message
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On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 08:30:42 GMT
"Snooze" wrote:

Completely unintentionally too! I think I started with 0.99pl?? but i
forget the patch level number. Funny story how I go introduced to
linux.

Since this is still OT, share?


Somewhere in the fall of freshmen year or summer post high school
graduation, I got a 540mb hard drive as a replacement for the 40mb hard
drive I had in my 386. At the time I had ms-dos 3.3 installed on the
computer, but dos at the time couldn't access a partition greater then 33mb.
A buddy of mine, had a 486, and a larger hard drive, so I went to his house,
and we copied all of my hard drive to his system using laplink (an all night
task). Afterwards using the linux fdisk, and the format that came with
ms-dos 5.0, we were able to partition the disk into two 220mb partitions.

First we rebuilt the dos side, then my friend showed me this cd, that
installed this program called linux onto the computer. So he installed it
for me. At the time I had never even heard of linux or unix, but since it
was a computer program, and I suddenly had more disk space then I ever knew
what to do with, why not?

Anyways he showed me how to boot into linux or dos using LILO. I went into
linux a few times, but I kept getting stuck in ed or vi, although at the
time I didn't know it was vi. But I knew that hitting control-alt-delete
when I got a screen full of ~ fixed the problem.

At the time I thought linux was a dos program, because all the dos commands
sort of worked. Slowly over time I started to learn how to navigate around
in linux, and learned enough to mess up the install to the point it where
didn't boot. Eventually another friend of mine reinstalled slackware on my
system, and showed me how to do things like recompile the kernel. On a 386,
you start the kernel recompile at breakfast time, and it might be finished
by dinner time.

I think the kernel was around 1.2.x by the time I was familiar with the way
things worked.

Sameer