Win95 Boot Disk w/cd

[lordmeatball]

Can anyone refresh my memory?:
How do I make a Win95 boot disk support a cd-rom?

Something about copying mscdex.exe to the floppy and adding a line to autoexec.bat???

Thanks.

 

[phsstpok]

You need an ATAPI driver and you list it in the CONFIG.SYS (e.g. device=A:\ATAPI.SYS). MSCDEX.EXE gets listed in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.

You can also use an ASPI driver which, I believe, combines the functions of the two files above.

In both cases, you should be able to get the drivers from your CD-ROM's manufacturer site.

 

[AMD_cErTiFiEd]

you need oakcdrom.sys or cdrom.sys
copy it to the floppy
in config.sys add line device=\oakcdrom.sys /d:cdrom
copy mscdex.exe to floppy
add line
\mscdex.exe /d:arist
and thats it

 

[lordmeatball]

Add line to config.sys:
device=\oakcdrom.sys /d:cdrom

Then add this line to autoexec.bat?:
\mscdex.exe /d:arist

What is /d:<b>arist</b>

Thanks.

 

[AMD_cErTiFiEd]

sorry i am at work and that is what we use for cd name it should say
cdrom

 

[phsstpok]

the /d: means driver name as DOS recognizes it. The name that is used is established by the CD-ROM driver. Sometimes you can specify it. Some drivers will have a default name like, "CDROM". The point is MSCDEX needs to know the name so that it can find the driver.

You have Windows 95 so I don't know where you will get OAKCDROM.SYS so as I mentioned before you may have to get your CD-ROM's driver from the manufacturer.

Here is an example of the CONFIG.SYS and AUOTOEXEC.BAT files.

Config.sys
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device=oakcdrom.sys /d:<b>NAME</b>
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Autoexec.bat
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mscdex /D:<b>NAME</b>
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where <b>NAME</b> is any standard 8 character name (could be anything) but it must match in both files.