ok, i played around with the mscdex and the drivers for the cdrom. I got windows 95 installed

but after i installed windows, it stopped recognizing the cdrom

i want to tap off the dsl network that my XP machine has. i need the cd to do this!!! ::arg:: anyway, if i ever get my cdrom working, i will prolly have more questions regarding the network, ive done it plenty of times between 2 xp pro machines and an xp home and xp pro machine, but never with windows 95. anyway, once i get it networked, and i know i can do it, im formatting my xp machine, then networking again (since it "should" be easy since the 95 machine will already be set up, anyway, thank you guys for your help while i do my "spring cleaning" lol. im gonna go play around with the cdrom drivers some more(hopefully get windows to recognize them), now that i have windows again