cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/62743547
this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2026
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You know… someone somewhere MUST have built a system using two floppies and, like, a CD drive or something.
Also, trivial fact while I'm here that some may not know about: If your system only had one physical floppy, you could still use A: and B:. When you switched, it would prompt you (iirc) to swap the diskettes.
A CD drive but no hard disk? ~~I don't know of a DOS/Windows that would accept such a thing.~~
edit: nonsense
CD drivers did exist for DOS and you could absolutely boot up a system with one or two floppies, and one optical drive. MSCDEX.EXE was apparently what allowed you to connect to the optical drive.
You're totally right. You could put DOS on one floppy and the driver on the other or just load it into RAM.
https://archive.org/details/dos-with-cd-rom-support
I never did it - by the time I had an optical drive, I had hard drives - but I kinda wish I had such a system. So wild to have like 500 times the data on a CD (much less DVD) than the floppied you booted from! lol.
Imagine the chaos if you could write to multi-writable CDs, too. lol. THat would have been wild.