Re: SUCCESS AT LAST

Mary wrote: 
"Robert Gault" <robert.gault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.

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


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.
.

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