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I recently tried. Didn’t work. Don’t know if the disks were too old or the burner was toasted.
CDs are sometimes still the only way to put an OS on old gear.

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grue@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

CDs are sometimes still the only way to put an OS on old gear.

Spoken like a person who doesn’t own a floppy drive. 😞

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I’m just making a silly joke, of course, but I think there’s enough temporal overlap between floppy drives and USB ports that it’s accurate.

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- DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Remember when BIOSes weren’t able to boot from CD-ROM so you needed a boot disk? Or was that just a windows problem?
  
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  - AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    The first computer I ever used was a Macintosh 128k. It didn’t have an OS. The OS was on a floppy that you had to have in to start the system. My dad bought two external drives so that he could run more complex programs on the thing.
    
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dbtng@eviltoast.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I owned Win95 on floppy. That was a hell of an install. 11 disks?

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