Well, a funny thing happened on the way to rebooting my computer.........
It didn't. It couldn't. Not even past the RAM check. It gets about a quarter of the way through the RAM and then just freezes. This is not good.
I don't think this is the installations fault, since the problem seems to be a hardware/bios level. Luckily, Dell support is coming today to give me a new motherboard.....
Anyway, one of the other errors I got was
Error 0x40
which I'm guessing is another media error. If that's the case, I'll look into using a different floppy drive.
However, that will have to wait until my new motherboard arrives.......
Cheers,
Brett