The floppy method failed me because I had bought 50 unbranded floppies at what I thought was a bargain price. But it turned out they weren't reliable at high density.

Switching to a different brand meant my only remaining problems were:

- the time it took to install by switching out all those floppies

- having to wait overnight for a kernel recompile whenever I added new hardware (not that often, but the memory is strong because those were the exact times I didn't want to have to wait)

- not really knowing why I wanted to use Linux, apart from thinking it would be cool to have a web server running in my room (this was back in 1994)