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> I guess the hard disk didn't have enough space for both the raw disks and the install?

Floppy-disk-based installers were often hardcoded to use the A: drive so even if there was space for the install and the floppy installer on the HDD, you'd need to copy the installer to the floppies to use it, unless you had some workaround.




I'm pretty sure MS-DOS had the SUBST command to alias drives and paths from an early version.




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