AK - the inability to fit the windows sys files and drivers all on one floppy is precisely why I suggested in my first post to use DOS 6.1. You'll find by setting it up that way, it works quite nicely and fits into one floppy.

Two floppies is a pain - because you'll want to load the drivers in with config.sys and autoexec.bat, not manually. I'm not quite sure why this is the case, but experience tells me it is.

On my win95/98 install floppy I have:

Dos 6.1 system (command.com)
A homemade config.sys and autoexec.bat file which load in:
mouse
mscdex.exe
himem.sys

and make available the following utilities:
format, fdisk, chkdsk, scandisk (just in case and to double check yourself).
and my disk manager (for hdd's too large for win95 or 98 to recognize - allows multiple partitioning and helps winblows recognize it.) That disk manager, should you choose to use it, will be necessary to load onto the hdd after windows installs, and must be incorporated in config.win as well.

With these files and a good CD with key, you can install win95/98 on just about any ol' box you want to.


Luck to you!

[edit]BTW Nokia's spot-on with his solution as well - just taking a different route than mine to the same destination. Now that I think on it I load in atapi.sys, which would be the driver for most of the cd-roms I deal with - so you'd want to load in the driver he's suggesting in leiu of that...[/edit]