Same! I think it was back in 1997 in college, and my dorm mate only had 4 floppies sitting around, and Slackware was around 50, so I kicked off the installation with the first couple of disks, and when I'd finish up with one I'd toss it across the hall to him, and he'd reimage it with the next in the sequence and toss it back. Pretty tedious, but it got the job done.
I'll never forget how foreign Slackware felt after having grown up on DOS. It wasn't long before I got used to it, though, and I never did go back. Great memories.
I remember being blown away by Debian. It packed most common network card drivers, so that you needed just two diskettes to bootstrap the installation, and the rest was downloaded.
Of course, QNX was even more impressive, packing the os, windowing system, network and modem drivers, and a web browser on one single diskette. Amazing.
