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First post, by Spork Man2k

Posted on 2006-11-20, 01:27

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I am having trouble with installing POP2 from a cd-rom drive. The game itself is on a Creative CD that contains mulitple games, including Yeager's Air Combat, Shadowcaster Ultima VII, etc.
I type in the following commands upon opening of DOSBox v.65:
Z:\>mount C: "C:\oldgames"
Z:\>mount D: "E:\" -t cdrom -ioctl
Z:\>D:
D:\>cd POP2
D:\POP2>INSTALL D: C:
"You have asked to install Populous 2 from drive D: to drive C:.... Press any other key to continue" Presses ENTER
"There was a problem with the install. Do you have 10,818,180 bytes free space? You can type CHKDSK [drive letter]: to find out how much free space you have. Please read your manual section about installing Populous II or you can contact our customer support service department if you have any problems."
How might I go about fixing this problem?

Reply 1 of 11, by vasyl

Posted on 2006-11-20, 04:05

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Add "-freesize 800" (or some other number; 800 works well for me) to your "mount c:" command.
Hmm, POP2, Shadowcaster, U7... That's pretty darn good for a bundle CD.

Reply 2 of 11, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2006-11-20, 11:15

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Reply 3 of 11, by Spork Man2k

Posted on 2006-11-21, 01:28

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The command "-freesize 800" added to the "mount C: "C:\oldgames" command did not work for me. What does the -freesize 800 command do for drive size? Is there any other possible solution to this? (As for the games on the C-D, they are: Hong Kong Mahjong Pro, Seven Cities of Gold, Yeager's Air Combat, Shadowcaster, Populous II, Space Hulk, Ultima VII, The Savage Empire, Ultima Underworld, Wing Commander Academy)

Reply 4 of 11, by MiniMax

Posted on 2006-11-21, 10:10

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http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php? … rograms%2FMount

Reply 5 of 11, by Spork Man2k

Posted on 2006-11-21, 21:51

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Making the drive 800 megabytes should be quite enough for a 10 megabyte game. Therefore the "-freesize 800" command is not working. How about another possible solution, please?

Reply 6 of 11, by MiniMax

Posted on 2006-11-21, 22:44

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What kind of file is D:\POP2\INSTALL ?

An BAT-file, or an EXE ? If it is a BAT-file, could you attach it here?

Reply 7 of 11, by Spork Man2k

Posted on 2006-11-22, 17:27

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It is a .BAT file, and I have attached it. Unfortunately the site does not allow .BAT extensions, so I had to archive it into a .ZIP folder.

Reply 8 of 11, by vasyl

Posted on 2006-11-22, 19:02

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Try this: instead of doing "d:, cd \pop2, install d: c:" just run "install d:\pop2\ c:"
If everything else fails you can just copy contents of POP2 directory on the CD to c:\pop2 -- that's all that install is doing anyway.

Reply 9 of 11, by MiniMax

Posted on 2006-11-22, 21:05

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Here - a fixed version of INSTALL.BAT

Reply 10 of 11, by vasyl

Posted on 2006-11-23, 04:48

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Nice job, MiniMax. I could not try it with DOSBox earlier today so I've missed the actual cause of the problem. Just to save everybody else the trouble of comparing two versions, here's diff output:

28c28 < COPY %1.\POPSAVE %2\POP2\POPSAVE>nul --- > COPY %1.\POPSAVE\*.* %2\POP2\POPSAVE>nul 30c30 < COPY %1.\DATA %2\POP2\DATA>n […]
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28c28
< COPY %1.\POPSAVE %2\POP2\POPSAVE>nul
---
> COPY %1.\POPSAVE\*.* %2\POP2\POPSAVE>nul
30c30
< COPY %1.\DATA %2\POP2\DATA>nul
---
> COPY %1.\DATA\*.* %2\POP2\DATA>nul
32c32
< COPY %1.\SOUND %2\POP2\SOUND>nul
---
> COPY %1.\SOUND\*.* %2\POP2\SOUND>nul

This is actually quite interesting. Looks like COPY command in DOSBox still needs some work... I wonder if the original installer worked in all versions of DOS.

Reply 11 of 11, by Spork Man2k

Posted on 2006-11-24, 17:29

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I used a combination of vasyl's idea of copying the files from the C-D to the oldgames folder, then applying the fixed INSTALL file. Then installing it from the harddrive. It works perfectly now, thank you all.

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