virtualbox.org

Perhaps, but that wasn't the case here. We established above that the image was of a standard 1.44MB floppy.

I did say such a set "includes" non-standard disks. The first disk, known as the "Boot Disk", is always 1.44Mb. It has to work with the stardard BIOS which may not recognize non-standard disks. The next disk is (rather confusingly) known as "Disk 1". Possibly this one, possibly later disks, may be non-standard. OP seemed to succeed with the Boot Disk (as shown by the attached screen), but to have problems with later ones.

However, you are right that it makes far more sense to use a CD-ROM image, and more sense still to use Windows 98SE (or Me).

I recall that Microsoft installation programs on multiple floppy disk, could be copied to a CD, using separate folders for each floppy disk. Disk 1 was copied to the folder 'disk1' and so on.

dlharper wrote:The next disk is (rather confusingly) known as "Disk 1". Possibly this one, possibly later disks, may be non-standard.

I can't say I remember that, but my memory is notoriously unreliable.

dlharper wrote:OP seemed to succeed with the Boot Disk (as shown by the attached screen), but to have problems with later ones.

My own suspicion is that the OP only has one disk from the set, since no others have been mentioned.

@Jorgensen: yes, copying the floppy disk set onto CD was definitely the way to go. Going one better, ISTR that Win95 OSR2 definitely had a standard CD installer, though it may not have been a bootable CD. As already discussed I don't think that came in until Win98SE.

The "El Torito" standard for bootable CDs wasn't published until 1995. I am fairly certain that no version of Win95 was released on a bootable CD. I must admit, I cannot remember about Win98. I have a CD of Win98SE that is definitely not bootable, but probably others were released that were. My oldest bootable CD is of Windows Me.

Sorry. This is getting a bit off topic.

I still have a Microsoft Win95 CD and it is definitely not bootable. It came as part of a package for pre-OSX Macs called Virtual PC.

And I have a Win98SE bootable setup CD (retail), which I've already used twice to create VMs, so I know those definitely existed.

so somewhere between Win95 and Win98 . Mine was retail also btw, Has Microsoft's label on the CD and came with a retail key.