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First post, by jim78b

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i have all 12 disks of autocad, how i install it?

tell me please the exact procedure?

i will make disk image???

Reply 2 of 25, by Dominus

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mount a a:\ -t floppy
mount c C:\dos
a:
install

if you dontT have a floppy drive you are mostly out of luck since dosbox' imgmount doesn't change floppy images (yet?). Though you can try putting the files from all the floppies into one big folder and hopefully it runs with that instead.

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Reply 4 of 25, by Dominus

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Dominus wrote:
mount a a:\ -t floppy mount c C:\dos a: install […]
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mount a a:\ -t floppy
mount c C:\dos
a:
install

if you dontT have a floppy drive you are mostly out of luck since dosbox' imgmount doesn't change floppy images (yet?). Though you can try putting the files from all the floppies into one big folder and hopefully it runs with that instead.

So do the above and floppy images won't work as I wrote

Reply 6 of 25, by Dominus

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didn'T know that existed, Virtual Floppy Drive homepage: http://vfd.sourceforge.net/
Says it doesn't work on 64bit Windows, though 🙁

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Reply 8 of 25, by coolhaken

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Please look the README.TXT about the BOOT command ...

BOOT
Boot will start floppy images or hard disk images independent of
the operating system emulation offered by DOSBox. This will allow you to
play booter floppies or boot other operating systems inside DOSBox.
If the target emulated system is PCjr (machine=pcjr) the boot command
can be used to load PCjr cartridges (.jrc).

BOOT [diskimg1.img diskimg2.img .. diskimgN.img] [-l driveletter]
BOOT [cart.jrc] (PCjr only)

diskimg1.img diskimg2.img .. diskimgN.img
This can be any number of floppy disk images one wants mounted after
DOSBox boots the specified drive letter.
To swap between images, hit CTRL-F4 to change from the current disk
to the next disk in the list. The list will loop back from the last
disk image to the beginning.

[-l driveletter]
This parameter allows you to specify the drive to boot from.
The default is the A drive, the floppy drive. You can also boot
a hard drive image mounted as master by specifying "-l C"
without the quotes, or the drive as slave by specifying "-l D"

The exact procedure ->
1. make floppy images (ex:01.img ..... to 12.img)
2. make a bootable harddisk image (ex: c_disk.img)
3. imgmount c c_disk.img
4. boot 01.img 02.img ..... 12.img -l c
5. when the installer ask for another disk, press ctrl-F4 for loop
6. copy the installed files from harddisk image to anywhere you want
7. enjoy 😉

Reply 9 of 25, by Dominus

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coolhaken, your copy/paste of the boot command does not make sense here.

@Jim, if you have a floppy drive what is the problem with the steps I told you to do? (if your floppy is not at a:\ then use the correct drive letter)
mount a a:\ -t floppy
mount c C:\dos
a:
install

Let's see how often I need to copy/paste this...

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Reply 11 of 25, by Jorpho

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Dominus wrote:

@Jim, if you have a floppy drive what is the problem with the steps I told you to do?

Well, he did say "don't want copy files on 12 diskettes!!!", but considering he also said "i have all 12 disks of autocad", it's all kind of ambiguous.

Reply 12 of 25, by coolhaken

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Each of the 12 disks of AutoCAD R12 has a file named "DISK.ID"
The installer check that file to determine on what disk is in drive A.
If you copy all files to a big .img file, you only have one of these disk's "DISK.ID".
It is indeed that they are all different. So you can't install by this way.
This is the problem !!!

Reply 13 of 25, by Dominus

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coolhaken, then be more verbose. Your solution only helps if the disks are indeed only on images (jim is not very informative on this issue), and you have a hard drive image to boot from. Onyl the copy/pasting of the readme doesn't help much, especially with someone like jim, unless you want to give a step by step of how to create a bootimage, install dos on it and and and...
Virtual Floppy drive sounds much easier...

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Reply 15 of 25, by Dominus

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Dos 6.22 is not freeware. You should remove that

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Reply 17 of 25, by Dominus

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Jim: don't shout.
So you have the floppies as image files? Use Virtual Floppy Drive (as linked to above) and change the mount a... to the drive letter VFD uses.
Other than that I give up, since the language barrier seems to be too big to get further.

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Reply 18 of 25, by garrynichol

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Acad r 12 comes in dos and windows versions. If you have the dos version there shouldn't be any trouble installing it inside dosbox as long as you get a floppy drive working other wise you'll have to copy the disks to virtual floppy disks ans install from there. I don't remember off hand but ususally the installation program was called install or setup. If you have authentic install disks the first one should say on it what to run to install it.
If you have the windows version of acad r 12 you'll have to have win3.1 or win3.11 installed in dosbox first. I think there's a win3.x version available for download I saw somewhere on this or the dosbox site.
I had a little problem mounting the floppy until I realized there has to be a floppy in the drive. Also, if you don't have any special acad video drivers you'll be limited to 640x480 res. in the dos version. super vga drivers should work in windows 3.x.