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Re:Windows 96 by globular-toast on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @08:23AM (#27982930)
Our copy of Windows 95 was on a CD, but it still needed a floppy boot disk (I don't think CD booting was a thing for another few years). I hated using floppy disks and hated booted from them the most. I always had the feeling it just wasn't going to work and now I had no way to boot my computer at all.
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Re:Windows 96 by dagw on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @08:26AM (#27982947)
And if you could boot from the CD you also needed floppies with the correct device drivers to actually do the installation.
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Re:Windows 96 by globular-toast on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @08:31AM (#27982979)
Yeah, I needed to do that even with XP because I had an early SATA computer.

Later I learnt you could customise the Windows CD, burn it yourself and include service packs, drivers etc. on it. That saved a lot of time (because back then, reinstalling every few months was a thing).

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