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Sealed Windows 2000 Advanced Server floppy disks (lemmy.world)
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[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

Back in the day, you needed a floppy drive to boot from a CD ROM (or a special reboot command). It wasn’t until a new BIOS firmware came out that allowed you to boot from CD ROM.