Problem
My original Win 95 floppy disk did not include the optical driver, so I could not load the CD disc. A fake ISO disc did not work either for obvious reasons. But in order to access the files they need to be copied over to a drive.
Solution
The virtual drives that are created by Virtual Box can be mounted in for example win 10. There are a few methods of creating a virtual drive, the one I found that is mountable in win 10 is the Virtual Hard Disk (.vhd) format.
Create such a virtual hard disk. It is probably possible to partition and format this through windows 10, however through the start floppy disk, the fdisk and format tools are available, so this was my choice. It takes a long time to boot from a floppy, but it is also very nostalgic.
Finally, when the virtual drive has been partioned and formatted, use windows 10 Computer Management tool (Compmgmt.msc) and attach virtual drive. As this disk is now both properly partioned and formatted it will be mounted and assigned a drive letter.
Open file explorer and copy the whole optical disc content to the virtual drive.
Re-start the virtual windows 95 or 98, and continue from the drive to where you copied the disc's data to.
This also helps avoid the annoying issue of halting installation in Windows 98, if it is attempted to be done straight from the optical driva.
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