Jamesapp wrote:

c:\>imgmount d freedos.img

The .img file I created would be in the root level of the c drive, but it won't mount.

It looks like you already mounted a folder to be the root of C. Please list all the steps you've taken so far.

Ok

I have freedos.img in my home folder on my Mac which is ~
then I start dosbox and
z:\>mount c ~

And dosbox says "drive c is mounted as local directory /users/myname

I just tried at the prompt

z:\>imgmount d c:/freedos.img

My computer says could extract drive geometry from image, and then to use parameter -size to specify geometry

Does that mean there is something wrong with my .img file? Shouldn't it mount?

Try imgmount d c:\freedos.img -t cdrom

I tried unflinching as a cd and as a floppy the cd I got back mscdex: failure invalid file or unable to open

And the floppy I got back can't create drive from file

I am wondering why imgmount won't let me mount this image. I was reading in another thread where people were talking about installing windows 3.1 in dosbox, I don't understand why I can't install freedos in dosbox.

I can just boot from the freedos .img files but then I can't run fdisk to partition my drive. I thought about partitioning my hard drive from the unix command line, or disk utility on my Mac? Would that work if I could somehow partition my hd and then open dosbox boot to the freedos .img files format the drive and then install freedos?

That should say I tried imgmounting in above post

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Please follow that guide Sample usage of a harddisc image in DOSBOX
and when applicable use the freedos floppy image instead of the Dos floppy image.
And when you follow it and you get to a problem, please post EXACTLY what you did and the exact error message or problem.

Edit: oh, and maybe name the hard drive image something other than freedos, it gets confusing to figure out whether you mean the floppy image or hard drive image....