Hello! The line referred to in your config.sys is looking for a file
(ide.sys - the driver for your CD-ROM) that your boot process cannot
find. Although I'd imagine that the file does exist somewhere on your
hard drive, it probably does not exist on your floppy boot disk. The
line device=ide.sys assumes that the file asked for is on the drive
(A) that you are booting from. The solution is to copy ide.sys from
your hard drive (it might live in the c:\windows, c:\windows\command
or even in the root drive c:\) to your boot floppy disk. By the way:
make sure that a copy of mscdex.exe (lives in c:\windows\command) is
also on the boot disk. This is the other file necessary to get your
CD-ROM drive working off a floppy boot. HTH.

Will Stephenson
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-----Original Message-----
When i boot from floppy A:, i get:
The following file is missing or corrupted ide.sys
There is an error in your config.sys  file on line 2

A:\>
A:\>mscdex.exe
Usage: mscedex [/e/k/s/v] [/d:<driver>... ] [/L:<letter>]
[/:<buffers>]

What i have in config.sys is:
Device=himem.sys
Device=ide.sys

What do i have to do with all this?
What am i missing?