Comment by a-dub

i suppose the ideal would be a working device to browse the internet, a usb stick and a pointer to the arch install wiki.

turning things on their head, i got started myself with coherent floppies borrowed from a friend and then later slackware linux downloaded off some ftp site i read about on usenet.

i have vague memories of downloading mint for the atari st and maybe something about it's c compiler, but not much.