Try

mount C G:\Games\DosGames

Yeah, found out that, surprise surprise, it really wants a C drive to install to. Got that working, used Nero to burn me an ISO so now I don't need the disk, now just need to find a way to get the "natural" music track instead of the "electronic" tracks. With Nero could only grab the data for the ISO and had to leave the audio tracks behind, wondering if that's causing it.

For the audio-tracks you need to create a BIN/CUE image, then use the imgmount command in DOSBox to mount the CUE-file.

urg, Nero won't let me do that, any suggestions for free app to do so?

edit: okay, second problem. I got Alcohol 120%, got it to make a beautiful bin/cue of both Tides and Portal. However, whenever I try to run Warcraft 2 with the Dark Portal disk mounted, it gives me the error:
ERROR:

invalid data file version
Press any key...

Alright, anything different I need to do?
command prompt:
imgmount d "g:\games\dosgames\images\dportal.cue" -t iso
cd war2
war2
I get a valid mount message from doing this, and Tides plays perfectly with this.

star20 wrote:

urg, Nero won't let me do that, any suggestions for free app to do so?

A Nero .NRG image will do but you will need to use some virtual CD driver program to mount it.

star20 wrote:

edit: okay, second problem. I got Alcohol 120%, got it to make a beautiful bin/cue of both Tides and Portal.

Alcohol 120% doesn't make beautiful bin/cues. It has errors with data tracks overlapping into eachother (and has had that bug for years)

Try ISOBuster'ing it

ok this is gonna sound stupid but i believe right along the same lines, i'm trying to install Warcraft 2, i love that old school RTS stuff, but i've been using linux all my life, i'm trying to install this on my xp box w/ sp2 , when i put in the disc it gives me the normal install window when i click install the screen goes to power save mode and the computer goes into stand by, if someone can please tell me how to install this game, and remember that i don't use windows so alot of the stuff i'm reading here i'm not sure of. thanks

Fact: There is no 'normal install window' in DOSBox.
Fact: There is no 'click' in DOSBox.
Conclusion: You are not using DOSBox.
Free clue: DOSBox works in Linux.

By "normal install window" he's probably referring to the autorun program that comes up when the disc is inserted. But still, it's probably wiser to install the game through DOSBox.

Just make sure the cdpath in war2.ini points to the correct drive

I always use ISOBuster to create CDRom Images.

Sometimes ISOBuster creates bad cue files but this can be easily corrected.

This is my cue for Tomb Raider

FILE "1_trackk1.bin" BINARY
TRACK 01 MODE1/2352
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
INDEX 01 19:39:65
TRACK 03 AUDIO
INDEX 01 22:56:37
TRACK 04 AUDIO
INDEX 01 24:56:50
TRACK 05 AUDIO
INDEX 01 27:59:59
TRACK 06 AUDIO
INDEX 01 31:08:42
TRACK 07 AUDIO
INDEX 01 34:16:14
TRACK 08 AUDIO
INDEX 01 35:19:54
TRACK 09 AUDIO
INDEX 01 36:17:25
TRACK 10 AUDIO
INDEX 01 36:32:55

Erik.

ok so heres where i get confused, i have dosbox installed, i can mount any drive needed, but don't know where to go from there, the disc is in my D drive, do i need to copy files over to my C drive and then run a command in dosbox? and when i said normal install screen, it means the auto run,

In DOS there is no autorun.

The way to install Warcraft 2 is :
- Insert the CD-Rom and close any window that pops up.
- Start DOSBox
- mount a directory on your harddrive as C:\
- mount you CDRom as D:\
- cd to D:\ and start Install.exe
- This starts the DOS installer of Warcraft 2
- Install the game and use the SoundBlaster 16 as the Soundcard
- when done installing cd to C:\War2\ and start Warcraft 2 by starting the exe War2.

Have fun,

Erik.

ok, thats much better, now can i please get some help wtiht he commands, when i look at the very first post i'm trying to write my command off of his but i don't know what his drive letters are to change mine to fit, my hdd is C and my optical drive is D.

ok so i've got both drives mounted i did

mount c c:\blah\
mount D "E:\" -t cdrom -ioctl

so both drives are mounted now how do i
- cd to D:\ and start Install.exe ?

60 seconds guide in my sig.

ok , ok so i get all the way to part 5 where i'm looking in the d directory, when i try to run some availabls like setup.exe or install it says, this program cannot be run in dos mode

cd is the command to be used,
C:
cd war2\
...

Or try a frontend like D.O.G. or DBGL. These are a kind of Windows on top of DOSBox.

No commands, no fuss.

Edit :

this program cannot be run in dos mode

this means that you're trying to run a windows program inside of DOSBox, aren't there any other install.bat or exe's?

Erik.

wowowowow, like i did install.exe and it said illigal command, now its working that is so odd, gotta love computers i was actually going back threw the list and checking them for you, so odd