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 guess you're right. I was thinking you could maybe mount the two
drives in the same line and you were telling me how to do that, but I
guess you have to do two separate lines for the two drives..

> 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. I did two separate lines so didn't
try the above. In the above example, the d is used for the hard drive
instead of c, so must be a partition, and the f:\ is the cdrom. So as I
said before, since you are mounting the cdrom drive by typing "usecd
0", the 0 part identifies which cdrom drive you want to use. In the case
of what I did, I typed mount c: c:\ first, then in next line "mount
f:\ -t cdrom -apsi" so I identified the cdrom drive with f:\ so didn't
need to put in -usecd 0, since f IS the cdrom.

> 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

A few examples in dosbox help mentioned d as being the hard drive the
game was going to be installed to and f:\ the location of the cdrom. I
would have to check again, but since I am using the c drive to install
the game and most of the game runs on the cd and hard drive together, I
guess it doesn't really matter as long as I got it working.

> Q: The game/application can't find its CD-ROM.
> A: Be sure to mount the CD-ROM with -t cdrom switch. Also try adding
the
> correct label (-label LABEL). To enable more low-level CD-ROM
support
> add the following switch to mount: -usecd #, where # is the number
of
> your CD-ROM drive reported by mount -cd. If you run Win32 you can
> specify -ioctl or -aspi. Look at the description elsewhere in this
> document for their meaning.

I have an idea what aspi is, and don't feel I need to find out any more
detail about it.
As to game label, I don't really know and I guess I don't have to. And
since I am not using Win XP or Win 2k, I don't need to know about ioctl.

Mary

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