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DOSBox: mount CD image to use in boot

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First post, by DepthsDoes

Posted on 2020-10-31, 11:32

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So basically, I have a CD of a game I want to install (SimCity 2K SE) and it comes on CD-ROM. I have a 520meg hard disk image mounted with Windows WFW* 3.11 on it. I want to mount the ISO in a way that when I boot Windows using:

1boot -l c

MS-DOS, and by extension Windows, detect the CD-ROM and I can run the installer.

Edit: BTW, I am using DOSBox v. 0.74-3. Latest version as of this post.

Thanks,
Depths

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Reply 1 of 4, by jmarsh

Posted on 2020-10-31, 12:04

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You can't. Mounting CD images isn't supported when you use the boot command to launch real MSDOS (or any other "real" operating system).

Reply 2 of 4, by DepthsDoes

Posted on 2020-11-04, 07:57

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oh...
I can just boot Windows in dosbox and then run the cdrom...

Reply 3 of 4, by _Rob

Posted on 2020-11-06, 22:24

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As jmarsh mentioned, DOSBox does not support CD-ROMs once you boot an OS in DOSBox. This is due to missing IDE emulation.

If you need this function, have a look at DOSBox-X instead.

Reply 4 of 4, by Jorpho

Posted on 2020-11-06, 22:36

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Does SHSUCDHD work while DOSBox is running? You would have to copy the ISO to the hard drive image in order for that to work, of course.

I would expect the installer would work just fine if you copied it off the CD and on to the hard drive image.

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