Probably same error as future shock. Keep the cdrom or image mounted as d as well.

And as qbix said in the other thread, move your games folder out of the program files folder. Windows (>XP) demands admin rights in those so saving is likely going to be a problem.

It appears that others have had this same issue.

Terminator Skynet problem

I have tried editing the install.dat file with notepad in every possible combination that I can think of and it doesn't solve the issue.

I can play the game directly after install.

As soon as I close out and attempt to play it without installing I get this error.

It appears to me that all problems were solved by using the correct mounts, e.g. Using the same mountings for the c drive and the CD-Rom for bith installing and playing.

Avenger wrote:

I can play the game directly after install.

As soon as I close out and attempt to play it without installing I get this error.

Close out meaning, exit the game or exit Dosbox? If you mean exit Dosbox I'm sure you are not mounting the CD(image?) again

Dominus wrote:

Avenger wrote:

I can play the game directly after install.

As soon as I close out and attempt to play it without installing I get this error.

Close out meaning, exit the game or exit Dosbox? If you mean exit Dosbox I'm sure you are not mounting the CD(image?) again

Closeout DOSBOX.

Once the image is installed it's no longer an image though...

How can you remount an image after all the game files have been extracted to a seperate folder?

Avenger wrote:

It appears that others have had this same issue.

Terminator Skynet problem

That is a thread from ten years ago that appears to relate to an entirely different issue.

Avenger wrote:

Once the image is installed it's no longer an image though...

How can you remount an image after all the game files have been extracted to a seperate folder?

I don't understand how you got that idea. The image remains exactly the same after installation because it acts exactly like an ordinary CD-ROM. When you install a game off a CD-ROM, the files are still on the CD-ROM afterwards. When you install a game from a CD image, the files are still on the CD image afterwards. Do you get it now?

In many cases, running an installation program on a CD only copies some of the files off of the CD. Even when you run the program that the installer copied to the hard drive, the program still needs to access other files on the CD. You still need to keep the image mounted whenever you run the game.

Jorpho wrote:

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Avenger wrote:

It appears that others have had this same issue.

Terminator Skynet problem

That is a thread from ten years ago that appears to relate to an entirely different issue.

Avenger wrote:

Once the image is installed it's no longer an image though...

How can you remount an image after all the game files have been extracted to a seperate folder?

I don't understand how you got that idea. The image remains exactly the same after installation because it acts exactly like an ordinary CD-ROM. When you install a game off a CD-ROM, the files are still on the CD-ROM afterwards. When you install a game from a CD image, the files are still on the CD image afterwards. Do you get it now?

In many cases, running an installation program on a CD only copies some of the files off of the CD. Even when you run the program that the installer copied to the hard drive, the program still needs to access other files on the CD. You still need to keep the image mounted whenever you run the game.

Understood. I literally haven't played a game off of a CD in close to 10 years as even most older games that required it upon early release later had "No CD" patches. The same goes for many of the old DOS games that I have played that were able to simply have the game exe mounted in DOSBox and of course modern titles don't require one at all once installed.

Either way, between Dominus and yourself I have learned something new over the last couple of days and got both games booting without problem.

Thank you.

Yay 😉