[yebyen]

ZipSlack? I seem to remember it was called ZipSlack because I actually had a ZIP drive at the time. That was definitely the coolest thing ever.

[pjmlp]

No, a pile of floppy disks.

I cannot remember anylonger the exact version.

It was the last version of Slackware to use a.out executable format and IDE ATAPI had just recently been added. My CDROM IDE wasn't supported during boot time, only after installation, hence the workaround.