Boot from floppy.(or startup disk)  Choose start without cdrom support

At the A:\      sys c:

Comes back with system transferred.

At the A:\      copy mscdex.exe c:

At the A:\      copy aspicd.sys c:

At the A:\      copy btcdrom.sys c:

At the A:\      copy oakcdrom.sys c:

 

At this point we removed the floppy drive and put the cdrom drive in.

 

At the c:\    

copy con autoexec.bat

c:\mscdex.exe /d:gunner

f6  (shows ^z)

enter

 

At the c:\    

copy con config.sys

device=c:\aspicd.sys /d:gunner

device=c:\btcdrom.sys /d:gunner

device=c:\oakcdrom.sys /d:gunner

f6  (shows ^z)

enter

 

At the c:\   ctrl + alt + del

after rebooting you should have support for most any IDE cdrom.