Windows 95 was on floppies too. I think 98 was the first to be CDROM only...
I never installed 95 much on floppies, I was a netadmin. I found creative ways to get machines connected to ethernet well enough with a clean hard drive, and would just copy all the install files over. Usually, installation was painless then (or, relatively).
I think it was windows 95 that had like a hundred floppies.
if that’s the case- i must have started with 98 because i don’t remember any floppies- I do remember a CD though- and remember upgrading ot 98 SE later, but for some reason i have a vague memory of 95- but not of floppies- but my memory aint what it used to be so it coulda been 98 that we started with