I can't figure out how to have my hard drive boot cd_rom drivers from the hard disk. I have a very old modular multibay cdrom/floppy drive. I can load the oakcdrom from floppy, but have to restart to swap for cd to install windows 98. I need the C: drive to boot the cd_rom drivers so I can run windows setup from CD. Any ideas?

http://home.att.net/~gobruen/progs/dos_batch/dos_batch.html#autoexec and the other pages all you need to know!

It's not difficult to load cdrom Dos drivers. You add a line to config.sys to load the driver and add a line to autoexec.bat to load 'mscdex' which is also needed. Boot from a floppy and run 'sys c: to make the hard drive bootable Create a config.sys and autoexec.bat file on c:\ copy the appropriate cdrom driver to c:\ Copy mscdex.exe to c:\ Use 'Edit' and add the following line to c:\config.sys device=c:\CDdriver.sys /d:mscd0001 Then add the following line to autoexec.bat loadhigh c:\mscdex.exe /d:mscd0001 NOTE! Change 'CDdriver.sys' to the name of your driver. The '/d:mscd0001' ties the two entries together and must be the same in both lines