[vlindos]

I got my Debian from a CDROM packed with PC Magazine back in 1998.

Unfortunately the disk was scratched and the installation was failing at the unpacking of one the deb packages.

I had no knowledge in tech other than some turbo pascal and ms dos batches scripting skills. I had no internet connection (it was too expensively). I had to do installation dual boot, to preserve the ms dos partition for the job of parents. I had almost zero knowledge in English. My PC was 4 years old 386dx with 4mb of ram.

However I did had spare summer vacation time at disposal. It took every third evening this summer but just before school I was able to hack the installation to skip the bad debs and boot into the New magical OS.

And then yet another adventure of configuring the new world called Linux stared.