Re: SUCCESS AT LAST

Rikard, one thing cleared up which you had mentioned and which I knew
but forgot again :)
Erimess said at one point:

"You can add the mounting in the configuration
file, at the bottom, so that you don't have to do this every time.
So, for instance, type:

mount c: c:\sierra\gob2\go.exe"

I haven't been combining it that way, and forgot that I can do it that
way. I have mounted the C and F drives, and then changed over to C drive
and typed in cd\sierra\gob2 Enter, then typed in Go (the exe part is not
needed. Anyway, I guess thats what you meant in your message. Doing it
separately comes to the same thing, but its the long way around.

Mary




"Mary" <nothere@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:...
> "Rikard Peterson" <trumgottist@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > "Mary" wrote in news:UOWdnUC-gYU5dH7fRVn-rw@xxxxxxxxxx:
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> > > "Robert Gault" <robert.gault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >
> > >> 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
> > >
> > > So it looks like you CAN mount both your hard drive and cdrom
> > > drive on the same line according to the above.
> >
> > No. What the above lines are saying to DosBox is something like
this:
> > "Hey, DosBox! You know that drive Windows is calling F? That's a
> > cdrom drive. Let's mount it and call it drive D."
>
> Did you mean to say in your above paragraph "what drive" above
instead
> of "that" drive?
> it doesn't quite make sense the way I am reading it. But aside from
> that, what I type in to make my game run in Dosbox is:
> In the first line in Dosbox, I type "mount c: c:\" then Enter, which I
> thought means mount the hard drive where you are going to install and
> run the game from. In the line below this, I mount the cdrom drive, so
I
> type "mount f: f:\ -t cdrom -aspi" and that is accepted and I am back
to
> the Z prompt and then change to C: drive and run the game as if I was
in
> DOS, so cd\sierra\gob2 Enter , then GO.
> That all makes sense to me what I am doing and why I am doing it, but
> when you explain a different example like you mention above, it has
> confused the issue a little. Am I missing something?
>
> In the example above which you are referring to:
>
> - mount d f:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -apsi
>
> The f is the cdrom, so what does the d represent? I only have f when I
> type in my mount instructions for my cdrom drive.
>
> > This command:
> >
> > mount C C:\sierra\gob2
> >
> > means something like this:
> >
> > "Hey, DosBox! You know that Windows folder called C:\games\goblins?
> > Let's mount that folder as a drive and call that drive C." (DoxBox
> > won't know anything about the rest of the C drive. It'll be as if
you
> > had a small hard drive that only contained the contents of that gob2
> > folder.)
>
> I don't type "mount c c:\sierra\gob2" anywhere. I only mount the
drives.
> I type the game commands after I mount both my hard drive and cdrom
> drive.
>
> > I hope that helps to make the mounting process a bit clearer.
>
> Even though I have the game going ok with what I am presently doing,
to
> be honest, I am not completely clear about some of the things you
> mention above.
>
> Mary
>

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