From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 13:27:25 -0500, jayjwa wrote:   
      
   > Nuno Silva  writes:   
   >   
   >> Funny thing, that's how my first distro got picked. Uknownst to me   
   >> then,   
   >> but knownst to me now, there was a step in the bootstrapping process of   
   >> that machine which used an incorrect/incomplete and needless El Torito   
   >> implementation (I should have just used the one in AMIBIOS   
   >> directly...). This failed to boot a lot of install media (and also live   
   >> media). IIRC I ended up going with the first that booted.   
   > That's what happened to me. I had Slackware, maybe Debian, and maybe   
   > Mandrake (?) - it's been a long time - but Slackware booted and others   
   > didn't. I can't say it was because of the same issue but the effect was   
   > the same.   
      
   My first Linux install was Slackware from a couple of boxes of floppies.   
   Later I had Red Hat Linux at work when they pulled off their gcc fiasco in   
   2000. Another rational choice -- I walked over to Best Buy, or maybe   
   Future Shoppe at that point, and they had SUSE in a box. Sold. I still   
   have the boxed set. I don't know if you can even find something like that   
   anymore.   
      
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