Oh yes, my moment! 2002, stage 1 off a DVD with no internet connection on a Pentium 2. Accidentally selected everything including open office, Firefox and done other stuff I don’t remember then hit emerge world. One week of compiling later it was finally ready for the next input 😂
If we’re bragging, I installed gentoo back in 2005 from stage1 tarball.
same here - but I somehow had constant data corruption on my loop-aes 8x160GB raid5 reiserfs, which went away after switching distro
Oh yes, my moment! 2002, stage 1 off a DVD with no internet connection on a Pentium 2. Accidentally selected everything including open office, Firefox and done other stuff I don’t remember then hit emerge world. One week of compiling later it was finally ready for the next input 😂
I remember some ungodly split package nonsense with Openoffice back in the day, but the details elude me.
It was still a pain on an Athlon64 X2
Jesus dude