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First post, by Fester77

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i got a an installation on my windows-box of dosbox and I am trying to run a game now on dosbox in ubunto .... I have copied the dosbox.conf and just altered it so c is /media/whatever ... so far so good when launching DB its seems just like launching it on windows ....
Now games that use imgmount cant find their cd even if the setup IS 100% right dosbox wise ....That is that they run on DB if its on windows.

Reply 1 of 8, by Dominus

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Obviously the path to the images is different as well. Fix those and keep the case sensitiveness of linux in mind. Also cue files need to be checked as well for correct bin name and path.

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Reply 2 of 8, by Fester77

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Dominus wrote:

Obviously the path to the images is different as well. Fix those and keep the case sensitiveness of linux in mind.

Not sure i get what you mean by this. I assume dosbox internal handling of files subdirs etc should be the same regardless if the binary is a windows or a linux one. Dosbox is dosbox , or...?

That is that root in DB is c:\ not whats outside the emulator. Then it whould be /media/win/whatever/dosbox/c:\games\blah\blah.cue, mixing windows filesystem and linux ( / and \ ....hmm) , meaning the whole (working) dosbox installment and all the bats whould need to be rewritten. If so it seems real silly 😜.

the imgmount is absolute path ie "c:\games\blah\blah.cue" . Orignially it was ".\blah.cue" but I changed it to absolute hoping it whould be foolproof that way.
The cue sheet are in order as else it could not have worked while running the same thing in windows dosbox.

If you feel I´m missing something please eleborate .

Thx

Reply 6 of 8, by megatron-uk

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The cue file refers to "HEROES2.iso" - ensure that a file of the exact capitalisation exists. It would work in Windows if the file was "Heroes2.iso", but not in Linux. Also all of the audio tracks have a lower case name "track01.ogg".

Check that they match what you have in your filesystem.

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Reply 7 of 8, by Fester77

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So i booted up the kubuntu and ran DB with that new cue that i reedited so that ALL filereferences are exactly like the filenames. Still it wont work.
I then set aside the bat and proceeded with manual commands.
imgmount told me it could not something something size geometry and ask for drivegeometry stuff.
This is so "##"¤"#"¤!! retarded that now I´ve just given up on DB for linux. Whatever "inside content" that works on a build on windows should work on ANY platform because it just that .... inside content , to be handled by DB.
If people feel like persuiting this do so ... Personaly i got fed up with it