http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/MOUNT#Mounting_a_CD-Rom_drive

Put CD in "real" CD-ROM drive. Then enter the proper command inside dosbox (see above link for command).

truth5678 wrote:

http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/MOUNT#Mounting_a_CD-Rom_drive

Put CD in "real" CD-ROM drive. Then enter the proper command inside dosbox (see above link for command).

I'm just curious, will Daemon Tools work?

I am assuming that the command you are referring to must be entered before you start the game, otherwise it leaves the scene and plays the game? Therefore my question would be, how do you enter commands in the same dosbox for two different drives as this is dos and does not multi-function. This is a serious question because I already tried mounting the drive with dosbox cd mounting commands as drive d so that I could access it in dosbox. It worked perfectly as far as accessing the computer cd drive, but when I then mounted c to play the game it naturally left drive d and of course did not recognize the cd anymore. It would certainly be a lot simpler if I had a way to get a 'no cd start' file for each one of my old DOS games.

I just checked the links both of you suggested and they are the same commands as dosbox shows and the same commands that I used. That DOES NOT WORK for a game run in dosbox from the hard drive that has to reference back to the cd/dvd drive for the game to start or even worse if it has to read data from the cd/dvd at points throughout the game. Surely there is a dosbox technician on this forum.

Assuming you made a folder at C:\DOS\GAMES and the optical drive is lettered D:\
MOUNT C C:\DOS\GAMES -t dir
MOUNT D D:\ -t cdrom
D:
Install

This will install the game to C:\DOS\GAMES\WAR2
Then to play it you would do this.
MOUNT C C:\DOS\GAMES -t dir
MOUNT D D:\ -t cdrom
C:
cd WAR2
WAR2.EXE

I was wondering if there had to be a direct connection to the cd drive by installing it from there. You see at the time I installed the game I had never noticed the cd mounting part of DosBox instructions. So I simply copied the cd to the hard drive, mounted c drive as C:\Warcraft and ran the game. When it wouldn't play without the cd in the drive I started looking and found the D:\ -t cdrom command line. But it would not play the game. So if your commands above actually work, then I am assuming it is because you are mounting d first and installing from the drive itself thereby having a line of connection and reference formed. I will start over and try it your way. Didn't have this problem with Warcraft, because the cd is not needed to play. Thanks.

It sounds like the problem was that you didn't have the hard drive (or the directory on it) and the CD drive mounted at the same time, although copying the files over instead of installing the game might have also been a problem. Anyway, did that work?