You could live as long as Frieren and it would probably still be downloading
croholdr
My first big download was maybe 1.2 mb and it took 5 hours on AOL and it was a reallly crappy video game. 2400 baud times.
WiseLong4499
It’s all fun and games until you get to disk 44632 and keep getting a disk read error…
StressExpress1999
jermygod
i bet it would fail
The_Bover
Fun fact: Windows 11 came out 36 years ago
Time flies
/s
xsteffz99
Facebook ass meme
TechnologyFamiliar20
Shouldn’t be like 3200 of them?
hardrivethrutown
I actually kinda want to try it lmao
Chraftor
You will need only several of them to start network install. It is 2025, dude. 🙂
Careless_Cook2978
Standard 3.5“ floppy has a max read speed of about 40kilobyte/second.
So you can calculate how long the data transfer will take
garth54
You’d hope they would at least have used HD diskettes, if not ED, instead of basic DD.
prefim
I had to do three head cleans during install!
Deranged_Coconut808
download freezes at 45683 of 45686. download corrupted. restart process. corrupt drive. motherboard bricked.
The_Undermind
9.3 hours assuming the max read speed of a floppy disk
Not including the time it takes to swap them
AugmentedKing
…. To what? Get fourty five thousand floppy disks from the car to the house?
Chainmale001
You would pull it out the instant it goes in. Kinda like prom night.
lordofduct
Windows 11 installation media is 5-6 GiB, lets just say 6. Assuming that is a double density double sided disk that’s 1.44MB per disk. It would only take ~4,370 disks to fit all 6 GiBs. Round it up to 5-6000 if the data isn’t distributed uniformly but maintains a 1MB average.
Even if they’re single sided single density disks with 360KB capacity we’re still only going to need 17,477 disks. 20,000 if it’s not distributed uniformly.
At 45,686 disks that would imply an average of only 138KB per disk. Either it’s a very poor use of disk space, or a very weird format for a 3.5 inch disk.
King_of_Nope
IDk maybe like 57 hours without taking into account swapping out disk or killing mold children in between.
Brorim
45684 disk read write error
dbltax
Then by the time the install finishes it needs an update, so you have to get them to mail out another few thousand disks.
my5cworth
Worst part is due to the 1.44MB size limit, you’d have to use ARJ to decompress each disk’s contents before you can even run the install wizard.
_Papasot
Until windows 13 comes out
stonktraders
50% chances the floppy disks fail and 50% the floppy drive fails
Internal-Buyer-7475
@endermanch on YouTube tried this and gave up pretty soon.
Tobias---Funke
And I thought Monkey island 2 had a lot of discs!!
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OP is old af!
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You could live as long as Frieren and it would probably still be downloading
My first big download was maybe 1.2 mb and it took 5 hours on AOL and it was a reallly crappy video game. 2400 baud times.
It’s all fun and games until you get to disk 44632 and keep getting a disk read error…
i bet it would fail
Fun fact: Windows 11 came out 36 years ago
Time flies
/s
Facebook ass meme
Shouldn’t be like 3200 of them?
I actually kinda want to try it lmao
You will need only several of them to start network install. It is 2025, dude. 🙂
Standard 3.5“ floppy has a max read speed of about 40kilobyte/second.
So you can calculate how long the data transfer will take
You’d hope they would at least have used HD diskettes, if not ED, instead of basic DD.
I had to do three head cleans during install!
download freezes at 45683 of 45686. download corrupted. restart process. corrupt drive. motherboard bricked.
9.3 hours assuming the max read speed of a floppy disk
Not including the time it takes to swap them
…. To what? Get fourty five thousand floppy disks from the car to the house?
You would pull it out the instant it goes in. Kinda like prom night.
Windows 11 installation media is 5-6 GiB, lets just say 6. Assuming that is a double density double sided disk that’s 1.44MB per disk. It would only take ~4,370 disks to fit all 6 GiBs. Round it up to 5-6000 if the data isn’t distributed uniformly but maintains a 1MB average.
Even if they’re single sided single density disks with 360KB capacity we’re still only going to need 17,477 disks. 20,000 if it’s not distributed uniformly.
At 45,686 disks that would imply an average of only 138KB per disk. Either it’s a very poor use of disk space, or a very weird format for a 3.5 inch disk.
IDk maybe like 57 hours without taking into account swapping out disk or killing mold children in between.
45684 disk read write error
Then by the time the install finishes it needs an update, so you have to get them to mail out another few thousand disks.
Worst part is due to the 1.44MB size limit, you’d have to use ARJ to decompress each disk’s contents before you can even run the install wizard.
Until windows 13 comes out
50% chances the floppy disks fail and 50% the floppy drive fails
@endermanch on YouTube tried this and gave up pretty soon.
And I thought Monkey island 2 had a lot of discs!!
Reminds me of [this](https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/news/50098/introducing-a-limited-floppy-edition-of-cyberpunk-2077) announcement from CD Projekt RED.
Remembering how often they failed, forever.
Imagine loosing Disk 45685
First of all, i want to see the other 45684 Disks and the floppydrive in your PC you want install it. =)