How to get to cdrom drive?

[girl2000]

I was formating my hard drive, and install the cdrom driver. the green light is working, but when I am typing D: id doesn't get to the cdrom drive and I can't setup win95 from the cd. I was trying to type all the other letters.
PLEASE HELP....
thank u

[Gordon Hansen]

If you're booting from a floppy, make sure that the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files contain lines to setup the CD. The floppy will need to have the proper files on it also.

The CONFIG.SYS should contain something like this:
device=himem.sys
device=oakcdrom.sys /D http://www.sysopt.com/forum/redface.gifemcd001

The AUTOEXEC.BAT should contain:
LH MSCDEX.EXE /D http://www.sysopt.com/forum/redface.gifemcd001 /L http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

HIMEM.SYS, OAKCDROM.SYS, and MSCDEX.EXE need to be on the floppy. HIMEM.SYS and MSCDEX.EXE are pretty universal. The OAKCDROM.SYS is what came with my CD. Yours might be named differently.

Hope this helps.

[Blade_Runner]

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http://welcome.to/Blade_Runners_Boot_Disk

(OOPs forgot the link http://www.sysopt.com/forum/redface.gif )

Blade Runner :-ޮ

[This message has been edited by Blade_Runner (edited 03-08-99).]