YATYRD

[Scott Stevens]

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.