On 2/13/14 8:38 PM, Adrian Stoness wrote:
wrong i have a oem copy of windows 95 that boots of cd
...and I have a 29-disk set of Windows 98 install floppies somewhere.
:)
I don't know whether I ever saw a retail W95 CD that was bootable. I
do believe Adrian's correct, that some later OEM versions would boot
from CD.
It's also worth remembering that a lot of PC BIOSs in that time frame
did not support booting from CD.
I also remember that the NT 3.51 and 4 install CDs at the time had a
tool for making a set of install boot floppies. I don't *think* that
Windows 95 did - I remember doing a lot of hoop-jumping to make a
working install floppy.
Ah, yeah, something like this:
http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/ist216mb/summer/installing_windows_95.htm
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