Either you mounted some drive unproperly or something else is bad. How did you mounted your drives (type in EXACT COMMANDS here).

Here are the commands I used

mount C C:\bioforge(where the game is installed)
C:
C:\bioforge.exe

I have the image file of the game and I can mount on a virtual drive(E:) with programs like alcohol if there is a case of having to use the disc.I need further instructions.

I think you should issue the following commands...

mount c c:\
c:
cd bioforge
bioforge

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Here are the commands I used

mount C C:\bioforge(where the game is installed)
C:
C:\bioforge.exe

Installed? How do you install it?

Remember that DOSBox now believe that your real C:\bioforge directory is C:\. And the error messages says it is looking for (C:\)bioforge\script\Emessage.txt. So the real Emessage.txt file must be in C:\bioforge + bioforge\script\Emessage.txt = C:\bioforge\bioforge\script\Emessage.txt.

maleas wrote:

I have the image file of the game and I can mount on a virtual drive(E:) with programs like alcohol if there is a case of having to use the disc.I need further instructions.

No need to use Alcohol for that. DOSBox has its own imgmount command for that.

Pusher,thanks,I was giving wrong commands but you see I'm not experienced with dos.However,it now asks me of the cd.I have a nero image of the game but I don't want to burn it,I want to mount it on a my virtual drive.I can mount it to virtual drive E but I don't know how to set dosbox not to read from the primary device D but from E.

I burnt it but it can't detect my drive d,where my burnt disc is inserted.What do I dow now?

You almost have the solution at hand....

Load up the image in your virtual drive (you said it was E:)

then mount the virtual drive (as cd-rom) under DOSBox keeping in mind what drive letter bioforge expects (let's assume cd-rom is D:)

Then, you will need to issue one command more under OOSBox...

mount d e:\ -t cdrom -ioctl -label <label if applicable>

Now, it SHOULD work.

Good luck.

One final question:I do not understand what a label is and how you apply it.

Label is a name used to identify a disk..

On ms-dos, label was queried using the command VOL (volume).
To change a label, the command LABEL was used.

To see (and probably change) label (volume name) under windows, you just have to access its properties (right click).

Enough of theory. Let's asume the cd-rom is labeled BIOFORGE (who could have guessed it! :LOL:), so you should mount your cd-rom drive something like this... (remember: ISO image is loaded at virtual drive E)

mount d e:\ -t cdrom -ioctl -label BIOFORGE

Then, you would have a D: (cd-rom drive) with a cd-rom inserted named BIOFORGE (mind you, some programs/games use label for checking the correct disk).

I realize this topic is long, long dead, but I'm running into the same problems listed here and Pusher's instructions aren't helping.

I'm using a GUI for DOSbox (I'm a wuss. :[ ) called D-Fend v2. I also have the actual CD for Bioforge, but since I have two partitions on my hard drive my CD drive is the E: drive instead of D:. Could this be part of my problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated.