I have tried this Tutorial, (Thanks for It!) but i had a Problem in Step 3. After restarting DOSBox and enter "Format C: /S" i see the Message "Ungültiger Laufwerksbuchstabe" in Eng. it means Invalid Drive Letter.
I Have tried it Step by Step by the Tutorial, who is the Problem?
So, i want ask too, how i can use external Drives and/or more mounted Images after starting a MS-DOS Session with the Boot-Command?
If found no Way to mount my CD-ROM Drive and additional Drive Images from the MS-DOS Session.
Drives mounted before calling the Boot-Command will be lost, but why?
Thx for Help,
greetings, Sonja
PS: Sorry for my bad English.
Last edited by Sonja on 2007-07-29, 10:42. Edited 1 time in total.
Now i have fixed the Problem, by using a Image of 503 MB, and my -size Parameter was not in the correct Order.
I must change to 503 MB, the 1 GB Image with right Parameters dosn't found when trying formating C:.
Thx for the Hint. 😀
The Format C: /S dosn't work again, but this time the Error was another: Displaying always insert a MS-DOS Diskette into Drive A 😳
So i have only Format drive C and than used the SYS Command, this worked.
But why max. is 503 MB?
I think the Harddrive Mode "Normal" can provide 512 MB and for more it must be LBA in a Real PC.
Now i have this for 2 Images:
1[autoexec] 2# Zeilen in diesem Abschnitt werden beim Start von DOSBox als Befehle ausgeführt: 3@ECHO OFF 4#Choice /T:J,5 Boot MS-DOS? 5Choice Boot MS-DOS? 6If ErrorLevel==2 goto Emulate 7 8mount X: G:\DosBox 9mount A A:\ -t floppy 10imgmount C X:\Master.img -size 512,63,16,1021 -fs fat 11#imgmount D X:\Slave.img -size 512,63,16,1021 -fs fat 12imgmount 3 X:\Slave.img -size 512,63,16,1021 -fs none 13mount E P:\ -t cdrom -usecd 1 -ioctl 14#boot X:\DOS7.ima 15boot -l c 16Goto End 17 18:Emulate 19mount c g:\DOSBox -freesize 512 > NUL 20c:\Autoexec.bat 21 22:End
I don't know, why #imgmount D X:\Slave.img -size 512,63,16,1021 -fs fat dosn't work, but its work with the -fs none Parameter (see below).
The real Problem is now, who i get the physical Floppy & CD-ROM Drive in the MS-DOS Session?
After booting MS-DOS, both does not exist.
Last edited by Sonja on 2007-07-29, 19:49. Edited 1 time in total.
cdrom maybe, floppy very unlikely, real HD/local path never.
What are you trying to do? In general copying files using the -fat mounted
drives (before (!) booting them) works fine.
I wanna try to set up MS-DOS as the default OS in DOSBox, some DOS-Tools gives me the Error Message "Invalid DOS-Version" in the DOS-Box DOS, some Commands are missing in DOSBox and i'm missing the Config.sys.
Last edited by Sonja on 2007-07-29, 20:24. Edited 1 time in total.
As to the floppies and CD-ROM's, you can transport the content of a floppy disk or of a CD-ROM to a folder on your computer using tools as WinImage and then copy them into the DOSBox hard disk image you created still using WinImage.
If the CD-ROM content is too big for your virtual hard disk you can try creating a second hard disk and mount both hard disks in DOSBox and then let us know what happened, although I don't think that would work.
Setting der Version with "Set Ver" has no effect.
The most external Commands from MS-DOS 6.22 / 7.0 display this Error Message.
I.E. Share.exe, used for Win32s cannot start.
I already use 2 Images 😉 (see below)
I tried to copy Files & directories with xcopy, but it has the Version Error.
So i use the Norton Commander, there seems it copy, but the Files are not copied to the mounted Image and it finally crash DOSBox.
So the only Way i see in DOSBox DOS is to create & copy each Directry seperatly 😵
If i Boot MS-DOS then the Copy from one Image to the other is with xcopy and Norton Commander no Problem. Installing Wfw works fine.
Problem with CDs are, if they > 503 MB or the Programm is searching for the CD Drive.
Mount an .iso File will be lost after Boot.
I found out another Problem, imgmount with "-fs fat" does not work with extended Partitons (It Message Cannot Mount Image), this was the reason, why only "imgmount 3 X:\Slave.img -size 512,63,16,1021 -fs none" (see below) worked.
I always used extended Partitions at the 2nd Harddrive, now i know, i should not to this in DOSBox.