Standard source distribution

Originally software was only shipped as source in a tar-archive. You had to manually download, configure and install it.

 % ftp somewhere
 > cd /pub/linux
 > bin
 > get lilo.tar.gz
 > quit
 % gunzip lilo.tar.gz
 % tar xf lilo.tar
 % cd lilo
 % more README
 % vi Makefile
 % make
 % make clean
 % vi Makefile
 % make
 % make install