So Windows 95 and 98FE came in cdrom and floppy form (though the floppy form only contained the base files, not all of the extra media stuff).

I found this site (link: http://www.winhistory.de/more/386/win95floppy.htm and search for "Methode 3") which explains how you can use W95 cdrom edition to create your own set of W95 install floppies.
It's in German so you might want to use google translate if your german isn't in the best of shapes 😜

Even though it gives a nice walkthrough, imo it doesn't tell me very much what they are really doing.
For instance, they described 95B to be easier to put on floppies and 98 to have files that would need 2MB because of it's IE files.
The strange thing is, there actually was a 98FE floppy edition so it should be possible to create 98FE setup floppies.

Could anyone here tell me exactly how the setup floppies work?
All I can tell is this:
The 1st disk is basically a boot disk with some utils so you can format/fdisk a harddrive and possibly read the 1.68MB DMF floppies (I think).
Disk 2 contains the precopy files which iirc contain the setup program 'thingy' and all the other disks contain the data files.

Could anyone elaborate what the disks do exactly? I'm wanting to create setup disks myself mostly for historical purposes 😉

Edit: I did a little more searching and found a couple sites that describe the procedure in English.
Link: http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/forum/thread/28 … ion-floppy-dis/

It seems all the disks need a correct label for this to work. Is this correct?
What happens if the disk labels are different?
Also, I remember having once tried to modify the .cab files because I wanted to tweak the install cdrom. I burned the tweaked cdrom to disk, started the setup and it gave me an error that it couldn't open one of the precopy cab files. Apparently you can extract files from the MS cab files, but you can't recompress them?

Does anyone know of a program that can create the correct cab files so Windows setup works with the modified cab files?