Solid Block of Ise

Another neat thing I brought back from my parents place was this 2-CD holder containing…. *drumroll*

Red Hat Linux 3.0.3!!

I was digging through the closet containing all my youthful foils and tribulations, and among the booty was this thing.

Pretty neat. I greatly over-estimated how easily that closet would be cleaned out, and after accepting failure I could only take a small smattering of things with me. This was one of those few items.

(Sorry mom and dad! I’m coming back up to do the job proper during spring. I thought there would be exclusively crap there, but I was wrong.)

Red Hat 3.0.3 from March 1996 (running kernel 1.2.something!) was the first real exposure to Linux for me. A few years previously me and my friends toyed around with Slackware, but THIS was the real thing. This was a lot easier to install, and a lot easier to get going. A minor recompilation of the kernel and everything worked! Really easy to install, all you needed to do was rawrite three floppies and follow some easy installation prompts. Even X worked without too much fiddling!

I’m going to try to get this thing running in VirtualBox just to get nostalgic, but for some reason the virtual harddrive is mounted read-only during installation. Weird. I’m going to have to investigate this.

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