On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:10:23 -0500
 Doc Shipley <doc at mdrconsult.com> wrote:
 Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
 On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Roger Merchberger wrote:
>The first install of W95 I had was a bootleg of their beta on 
 something
 >like 15 3.5" diskettes.  In fact...yep,
weird, still sitting on my
>printer desk.  It's been there for, gosh, I guess 10 years now :)  
 13
 >disks actually.  Wow, that brings back bad
memories (and I'm not 
 just
  talking
about W95 ;) 
   The full OEM 3.5" floppy version of W95b is 29 disks.  I have it
somewhere.
   The installation was excruciating, on par with SCO OpenDesktop 
 
 v2.x.
 Yep.  My install set for a time had a defective diskette #23 that was a
 rather hammering experience, that far into the install.  It only
 mattered if you selected certain 'options' during the install, otherwise
 you could avoid certain 'multimedia' features I believe, and it would
 install properly.
 Those of us who ever installed Slackware Linux from floppy diskettes
 know a somewhat similar experience. 
   Yeah, but there was much more pleasurable anticipation in the
Slackware install.  :)
   IIRC, Slack v3.3 took 54 1.44MB disks.
        Doc