"So Win98 boot disks work with Win95 CDs? Never knew that..."

Yep, a boot disk is a boot disk, Windows 98SE (note SE) boot disk has all the files neseccary to boot your computer and then load an OS, all it does is load system files and drivers to a "virtual drive" on your hard disk. Then when promted you type "setup" at the "A" prompt, this then hands over to the system files on your hard drive which then starts copying files from the CD-ROM by invoking the setup program. This can only be invoked by the system files after they are installed on a virtual drive, hence the CD not being bootable. If you had a XP CD in the drive and booted from a 98SE floppy it would just go ahead and install XP!

The only difference in a 95 boot disckand a Windows 98 SE boot disk is that there is more support for various CDROM's with a 98SE. 95 includes a very very limited CDROM driver by default and certainly does not include the MSCDEX.EXE file.

A 98SE boot disk is better than a 98 or a 95 one and the Windows 95 and 98 CD-ROMs are not bootable disks, they only started to be bootable with Windows 98 Second Edition (SE).

The easiest thing you can do is to download a 98SE boot disk, put your 95 CD in the CD drive, boot from the floppy, select install with CD ROM Support, then wait for everything to load up, and when you get the A:\ prompt all you have to do is type setup and it will do the rest for you!

GL