From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:36:37 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:   
      
   > On 2026-01-29, rbowman  wrote:   
   >> On 29 Jan 2026 00:04:17 GMT, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> That's actually how I used to get it installed for people back then.   
   >>> I'd often have a friend or family member who got some hand-me-down PC.   
   >>> Obviously, they understood nothing about it and wondered whether they   
   >>> could get some life out of it. They wanted Windows, but it was always   
   >>> going to be too slow for them, so I suggested Linux. I'd then drive   
   >>> over to the closest magazine store and get a Linux magazine   
   >>> specifically for the installation CD.   
   >>   
   >> The CD is long gone but I have the third edition of 'Red Hat Linux   
   >> Unleashed' from 1998 that came with Red Hat Linux 5.2.  It is 1005   
   >> pages without a lot of filler.   
   >   
   > I bought several of those books over the years. Never did read one   
   > through.   
   > I guess I got them mostly for the CDs (and later) DVDs.   
      
   Great information on LILO!  I did find it interesting that in the chapters   
   on shell scripting they use both bash and tcsh. I preferred tcsh and it   
   was still alive and well in '98. At some point bash took over.  tcsh isn't   
   even installed on Fedora, Ubuntu, and Arch.   
      
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