Great memories here. Slackware was my first, in about 1997 or so. I only had dial-up at the time, so it was my first real experience at bootstrapping: I downloaded (to floppies!) the a-packages for a base install, and the bare minimum n-packages (ppp, ftp) to be able to get a system up that could dial my ISP and download the other packages. Then, as phone line time permitted, I added X11, Netscape, etc to get a fully functional install.
