Re: SUCCESS AT LAST

"Robert Gault" <robert.gault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Mary wrote:
> > "Robert Gault" <robert.gault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:62EEe.27818$5N3.24320@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >>Mary wrote:
> ><snip>
> > "If the game wants to run from the CD, then your problem is that you
did
> > not mount the CDROM drive in the .conf file or manually. The needed
line
> > would be something like:
> > mount E E:\ f\ -t cdrom -usecd 2 -apsi
> > where you put the correct drive letter for your system."
> >
> > At that time I didn't really know what you meant because I thought
I
> > only had to mount the C drive, so later on, when I mentioned about
that,
> > Erimess said "thats the problem you also have to mount the cdrom
drive"
> > so I guess when she told me that, I had forgotten about your above
> > comment from your message the day before. In other words, I was
> > confused about what I needed to do.
> >
> > As an aside though, why would I mount E drive first then f: ? Why
> > wouldn't I mount the C drive first which is the drive I use most of
the
> > time then the f: drive, which happens to be my case.?
> > I guess in your example above, you are saying if E was the hard
drive
> > you were installing the game on, and using f: as a Cdrom, you would
type
> > the above. As it happened, you were close in your example. Only the
> > letters were different and usercd was not necessary.
> >
> ><snip>
> > Mary
> >
> >
>
> Looks like I made a mistake with the f\ which should not be there.
Here
> is a quote from the readme file.

I forgot what you had tyed in your previous message. You said:

"The needed line
would be something like:
mount E E:\ f\ -t cdrom -usecd 2 -apsi
where you put the correct drive letter for your system."

I see what you mean, though when you sent me that message it was just
the day after I had posted my first message, and I hadn't gotten to the
point of understanding that I had to mount the cdrom drive as well as
the hard drive. So I didn't really didn't know what you meant by the
above letters, and never noticed that the f\ was in there by mistake.
Your example was correct,
if the f\ was not there, and the usecd 2 was usecd 0 .Everything else
was correct except I don't need to put in the "-usecd " part.

> Q: My CD-ROM doesn't work.
> A: To mount your cdrom in DOSBox you have to specify some additional
> options
> when mounting the cdrom.
> To enable the most basic cdrom support:
> - mount d f:\ -t cdrom
> To enable low-level SDL-support:
> - mount d f:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0
> To enable low-level ioctl-support(win2k/xp/linux):
> - mount d f:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl
> To enable low-level aspi-support (win98 with aspi-layer
installed):
> - mount d f:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -apsi
>
> In the commands: - d driveletter you in DOSBox
> - f:\ location of cdrom on your PC.
> - 0 The number of the cdrom drive, reported by
> mount -cd

I have everything working anyway, but I am curious to know why isn't c,
the drive letter in dosbox (for my hard drive?) - I know my cdrom drive
is f:\ so what is d for?

Mary

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