And you people got lost there easy enough since not too many know about...? Alright all you "95 newbies" listen up!
First things first is learning..waaaaa.. whaat u say "dos commands"! For 95 you are limited to the first 2-2.5gb of drive space where the Fat16 dos primary has to be created first using... "fdisk"! (for those who use GParted that's a faster means there)
Upon seeing a new dos primary created the next step can done two ways. You can elect to see the basic dos system files transferred when formatting or use a separate "dos" command later. The format.com file found on the boot floppy supports 1) "format C:" and 2) "format C: /s" without quotes. The second command uses a "switch" to see the basic dos files copied onto the drive. If you use the format C: only then you later have to use the "sys C:" command. (kind of sounds like an MS pun there for not being smart.
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If you chose the startup with cd drive support option you are then ready to manually change from the a:> dos prompt to the d:> prompt for optical drive there unless more then one hard drive or optical is present. You do that by simply typing "a:>d:" and pressing the enter/return key "with" the keyboard plugged in since that really can help. At the d:> prompt simply type in setup or setup.exe and again press the enter/return key to see the 95 installer startup.