Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: How distros can get choosen by chance Date: 25 Dec 2025 18:40:50 GMT Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <10if6e3$kag3$1@dont-email.me> <10igm6l$10hm7$2@dont-email.me> <10igpir$1086g$16@dont-email.me> <10ij4vb$1pks0$1@dont-email.me> <87a4z6wh6a.fsf@atr2.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net WHKpWq/WEhg6n9wAWDbwHw5OORstowVu3n5QZkq2n9XvElVinL Cancel-Lock: sha1:sRi66UDXTVTknmj9OIqW4y9I5sw= sha256:jeqOtmotnFXN4vF6Cc1IU7rH5OsyoaZJv0W0rSV4keQ= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:79839 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.