Be careful with Windows 95. Although it's been one of the simpler "pure" Windows versions, it's also the first Windows to boot right from the start, even if through Ms-Dos 7.1. You'd have to edit a file in the root directory of the drive Windows 95 is on, to stop it from loading directly after start and to stay in Ms-Dos prompt.
It can also mess up your booting sequence with PSP, whichever operating system that console natively loads.
Also Windows 95 still requires Ms-Dos drivers to be loaded for many things, including CD-ROM drives. One of them is MSCDEX.EXE command in autoexec.bat file which is provided natively with Windows 95' Ms-Dos, the other is your CD drive's provided drivers, loaded in config.sys file - required. If you don't have the latter, Windows 95 won't recognize the CD drive.
And it should be drivers which are compatible not just with Windows XP and older as usual by now, but compatible with older Windows 95, and that is the hard part.
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