Okay, thanks for your help.
I used dosbox to install daggerfall in the directory c:\dagger. had to use the freesize command to free up some rume for the huge install.
I used dosbox to execute the 2.13 patch.
I downloaded the extra quests and placed them in the arena 2 folder.
then
i changed z.cfg path and pathcd to c:\dagger\arena2\
that was saved
then
i opened dosbox-0.73-conf and saved asdaggerfall.conf with the following changes: memsize=40, frameskip=1, cycles 20000
at the bottomof the file I placed these commands:
mount c c:\dagger
c:
fall.exe z.cfg
this file was saved as daggerfall.conf
i made the shortcut using the appropriate target: "C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.65\DOSBox.exe" -conf daggerfall.conf -noconsole
for the icon change:C:\DAGGER\DAGGER.ICO
this was saved
the only oddity is that i am using 64 bit vista. i am also using ubuntu, but i am not as far along in figuring out how to do it there.
what do you think i have done wrong?
Thanks again for your help.
frodo