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All situations. Installation from floppy disk is the exception rather than the norm these days. Many systems do not have a floppy drive any more, now that USB flash drives, network installations and removable optical media (CD/DVD/BluRay) have become the norm.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 13y agoAlmost all of them. Using floppies is the exception, not the norm. They are only required when either the computer does not support booting from a CD-ROM, or a third-party driver for the hard disk controller needs to be provided (is not included on the disc).
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