The early days of Linux

That anecdote about Linux fubaring his master boot sector hits very close to home: back in 1993 I had a SunOS system at work and I would create floppies to take home to install Linux on my personal 486. One day I got distracted and run dd to /dev/sd0 instead of /dev/fd0 and that was the end of that installation: time to reinstall SunOS from scratch and it took a day or two.

I'm not sure I ever fessed up to my bosses exactly how my system got corrupted :).