I'm booting a HDD image (for genuine DOS 6.22), but then I can't mount the CDs. How can I expose the CD-ROM drive (or an image) to DosBox so that it is available after booting an OS image? mount and imgmount are no longer available once the OS image is booted.
You can't. Best you can do is to either start coding or to use a virtual CDROM drive inside of DOSBox using a 3rd party tool.
Wait, there's a Daemon Tools type of tool for DOS?
Edit: Interesting, apparently SHSUCDX can do it: http://www.geocities.com/jadoxa/shsucdx/
I think that util may be included with FreeDOS, but I'm not sure.
to use a cdrom in dos 6.22 you have to a line in autoexec.bat and one in config.sys
and a cdrom driver
im sure someone here can supply one for you and tell you how to edit the 2 files
eg:
in autoexec.bat :
C:DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:123
in config.sys:
DEVICEHIGH=C:\MTMCDAI.SYS /D:123 (rename MTMCDAI.SYS to whatever your cdrom driver is called)
ps: from your first post it looks like your trying to run msdos 6.22 from within dosbox ???
this is a bad and silly thing to do
Yeh that virtual cdrom thing for dos works pretty decently. Get a big drive in your dos machine with fat32 and play some oldies.
wrote:ps: from your first post it looks like your trying to run msdos 6.22 from within dosbox ???
this is a bad and silly thing to do
no it's not 😜 it's a tradeoff - you get better DOS support and the ability to use HDD images in exchange for not being able to access any of DOSBox's built-in commands like mount/imgmount.
