I reading my Win95 disk setup.txt instructions. This is what I have found so far regarding your situation:
KNOWN POTENTIAL SETUP PROBLEMS
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Installing Windows 95 on a 4 MB or 386 computer from floppy disks may
be very slow. To speed things up:
- Run Setup from inside Windows 3.x or Windows for Workgroups. Avoid
running Setup from MS-DOS.
- If you are running a disk-compression program, such as DriveSpace or
DoubleSpace, Setup may be very slow. Consider copying the files on
the floppy disks to a temporary directory on your hard disk, and then
running Setup from your hard disk. To copy files from Disks 2 through
12, you will need to use the EXTRACT command on Disk 1 to copy the
Win95_xx.cab files to your hard disk, since they are in the new
Microsoft Distribution Media Format (DMF). Normal MS-DOS commands like
COPY and XCOPY won't work on these floppy disks.
To copy a .cab file from a floppy disk to your hard disk, use the
following command:
extract /c a:win95_xx.cab c:\<TempDir>
where <TempDir> is the location of a temporary directory on your
hard disk.
- During Setup, if you notice that the light for an empty floppy disk
drive is flashing for a long time and Setup is slow, try inserting a
formatted floppy disk into the empty drive.
- If you encounter problems during Setup, such as Setup closing
unexpectedly or error messages that do not apply, try increasing the
size of your permanent swap file. In general, the size of your
permanent swap file plus the amount of RAM in your computer should
equal at least 14 MB for Setup to complete successfully. After you
change your swap file size, try running Setup again.
Microsoft has the file list for
Win95 floppys
