Hi Keith:

It's the "L" switch which determines which drive
your CDROM will appear as.  The line in the
Win95-version-B bootdisk is:
MSCDEX.EXE  /D:banana /L:R

The "D" switch identifies the driver you want
MSCDEX to use.  The name can be anything, as long
as it matches a name in the CONFIG.SYS.  For
example, on the standard BOOTDISK.COM bootdisk,
this line appears in the CONFIG.SYS
DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana

In the absence of a designated "L" switch, Windows
will assign drive letters in order.  If you have
two hard drives, they'll get C: and D:, and your
CDROM will probably get E: (if nothing else loads
first, and if nothing else has specified it wants
to be "E:".  For example, DOS drivers for parallel
port ZIP drives can be assigned specific drive
letters.

The nice thing about assigning a specific drive
letter is your CDROM always appears as "R:" or
whatever.  It's annoying if you use a variety of
hardware, and find that sometimes your CDROM is
"E:" and sometimes it's "F:".

Win2K fixed this by giving you the opportunity in
its "Computer Management" control panel to assign
favorite drive letters to everything.

In Win95, we're limited in our drive assignments
to those device drivers which allow to to specify
a drive label in the AUTOEXEC.BAT.

Jerry


Jerry

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