update - What rwcitek suggested "boot: failsafe nohwsetup 1" works partly.
It gets past the bit where it hanged before, goes on to say about low memory and asks about using a swap file on a DOS partition. I agree, but then it says it cannot find a DOS partition.
Since i'm ruuning win 95 on there, not DOS, would I need to install DOS on a different partition?
Also, after saying it cannot find a DOS partition, it hangs again.