good old days - setup a new server - huge 10MB MFM disks where we had to manually enter the bad sectors (written on paper on the back of the disk) onto debug setup.
or installing a pretty fancy Sco Xenix desktop - 72 floppies bound to fail on the last one and having to restart all again after long hours doing it.
Yeah, and we didn't even have the luxury of browsing the web while waiting for floppies to load. We couldn't even Google that error code for that last floppy that failed.
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho