I had a floppy drive in my PC for that sole reason since I also had a SATA disk ...

globular-toast 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look...

I had a floppy drive in my PC for that sole reason since I also had a SATA disk which was a new thing at the time. Later learnt to build a custom CD and include the drivers in it, but it wasn't long then until I switched to Linux anyway.