Please tell us how you mounted the virtual drives inside DOSBox.

I used
"mount D D:\ -t cdrom"
"D:"
"D:INSTALL.exe"

then I get the install window

you didn't mount a C drive where you want the game to install to ?

Add this line
mount c c:\dosgames -freesize 500

(where c:\dosgames is an existing directory in where you want to install this game)

🤣 i feel like such I n00b 😜

thanks I manged to install it and its up and running 😁

Thanks a LOT!

don't worry about it. Maybe I should add a warning on when you mount a cdrom drive without having a C drive mounted or so .

while you are at it, a warning would be great also if the mounting is done like
mount c c:\dosgames
mount e e:\ -t cdrom
So if the CD-Rom is mounted to something else than d and nothing was mounted as d show a warning.
Sorry for hijacking this thread, it just was something on my mind when I saw your comment 😀

But that's legal under dos, not sure if it makes sense to put up a warning.
The only requirement for cdrom drive letters is that they're succeeding
each other, that is you could have V W X as your three mscdex'd drives.

I know, it's just one of those things that might go wrong on some games. I *think* we did have such a problem child somewhere here, or it's just a misconception of us helpful posters 😀

Yes, think the most safe way is to mount some directory as C: and the
cdrom/installation files as D:, maybe this could go with more explicity into
the readme (a warning might confuse more than it helps, dunno).

Might be useful to let the installer add mount strings to dosbox.conf on user request.

Something like "which CD drive do you want to use" and "where do you keep your DOS games"

The Unix vi-editor has a nice feature. If it is run with the option 'novice' it will behave a little different than normal. E.g. it will always show whether it is in insert or command mode, and it will (in some versions) refuse to execute editing commands that affect more than a single line of the file.

Perhaps a similar mechanism can be implemented in DOSBox? Have a [ dosbox ] usermode setting that can be set to 'novice', 'normal', 'advanced', 'expert', or 'frontend', and affect how mounting can be done?

Let usermode=novice be the default, and let more advanced users change it later on.