>>> vide-cdd.sys is available in many places... himem.sys
>>> and mscdex.exe are specific to the version of DOS you
>>> are booting from...

 LH> Okay -- I checked the 486 that is running W95 (the
 LH> computer that I made the DOS boot floppy on) and it
 LH> is missing vide-cdd.sys.  It used to be attached to

its not "missing"... it probably used another .sys driver at one
time or another... it doesn't have to be called vide-cdd.sys... atapi.sys
was another but the option switches may be different... and if you're
looking on a box that already has win9x on it, then you won't find it
anyway because win9x doesn't use .sys drivers in the config.sys file...
this stuff is years before win9x was even a spark of a though...

 LH> a LAN and the only CD drive it had was an external
 LH> parallel port drive.  However, I put an ATAPI
 LH> CD-ROM in the 486, and it is working fine w/o the
 LH> vide-cdd.sys file.  Is this file for DOS only?  Or is

yes, DOS only...

[trim]

 LH> Any solutions for the missing cd driver file problem?

nope... just locate one that works... do you have email access that i can
attach it to you? i'm hunting for the boot floppy that came with many win9x
systems... it has many .sys drivers on it for all kinds of cd drives... the
only time i've really needed anything different than the above one (which i
found to work the best over a wide range of drives) was SCSI drivers for
those systems with SCSI harddrives and/or cdrom drives...

)\/(ark