I'm trying to recall now, I know I had two different sets. A google search says the walnut creek made 72 floppies but i don't recall there being that many unless that includes source.
Yggdrasil so something like that was the other.
I had moved in my house in late 95 so it was after that.
I want to say one cd has slackware 2.somethng and the other 3.something
ok Yggdrasil wasn't Slackware
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X must have been another cs set.
must have been v3, wikipedia says 2 was on 73 floppies and 3 was the first cd rom version. I remember having to use a windows rawwrite to maake the boot floppy images and then copy the rest from a1,a2,a3, etc to floppies from the CD.
I would have really started with 9.1 or 10. Looking at my LQ history I see I had deadrat on my laptop ay 11/2003 but switched to Slack shortly after so I would have installed 9.1 or waited until 10. I remember trying 11 and it disabled tap to click on my touchpad any I could not get it working so I had to go back to 10 until 12 came out.