For reference, I do remember (admittedly mostly from retroactive poking around): For Windows 95, boot floppies were generally assumed to be needed (El Torito w

For reference, I do remember (admittedly mostly from retroactive poking around): For Windows 95, boot floppies were generally assumed to be needed (El Torito was only invented in late 1994), though the CD was usually used for the main installation. For Windows 98, boot from CD was widely assumed to work at least on machines that came with it.