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Originally posted by heyal256
I think that you are missing the fact that a lot of the computers that were around when win95/win98 first came out did NOT support booting from the cd-rom drive. This was a bios limitation if I remember correctly.
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Not quite true.
The CD-ROM's themselves weren't designed as a boot device, like floppies were. The earlier CD-ROMS were, of course, PIO-0 to PIO-1. Only drives of IDE mode 3 or higher have boot capability.
(I spent the last year working with old hardware. Can you blame me?)