It gets better, I had to install XP on a loving floppy. That's the only reason I still have a floppy drive.

going by the working space listed and that floppies can hold about 1.44MB of data, you would need about 195 floppies. going by the first total hard disk space that is required, you would need 1,032 floppies. going by the second one, you would need 1226 floppies.
going by this user's experience:

250+ floppies.
give us some proof that you installed XP on floppies, if you don't mind.
edit: unless you had another working computer with a floppy drive that enabled you to create the 6 setup disks mentioned on microsoft's website