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[Doc Shipley]

Scott Stevens wrote:

> 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.


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