next dosbox version will allow using hdd images -> using your own system. So files=xx should work. You can alrady check how it works in unsupported CVS version of dosbox.

I just built the CVS version... can you point me to where in my .conf file I should add the 'files=' line? I tried adding it to [dos] section but nothing changed.

Thanks

as I said CVS is not supported, so if you cannot figure it out yourself don't ask

as I said CVS is not supported, so if you cannot figure it out yourself don't ask

Thanks for your polite and clear reply. I note, however, that it probably took you just as long to write that as it would to help.

Have you tried just to make a config.sys file in the c drive that you mount, since dosbox 0.61 should have files=50 internally although some games/apps go to extremes and actually wanna see the line in a config.sys file or it might just be that it tries to detect it through some undocumented dos functions/table that we don't support

It seems like it is the latter. Thanks for your help.