Re: SUCCESS AT LAST

"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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