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First post, by FireLion

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So i was going through my boxes full of old Video games and i found my copy of U.S Navy Fighters in great condition, with CD, Instructions and everything. I put the disc in the DVD/CD drive on my PC with Windows 10 installed and it actually worked. I installed the game and everything worked perfectly. I decided to do an experiment and try to install it on my old school Macbook (its a Macbook Air 2017 13 inch). So I burned the disc and turned it .iso file (with still having the files on the disc) and put it on the Macbook. I installed DOSbox mac version on it and typed the mounting iso command. It actually showed the Installation screen, so i tried to install it but the only drive that i could install it on is the Z drive, which apparently had 0 mb of disc space, and I have no idea what Z drive is, how to install stuff on it or how to change the Installation path. Does anyone else have this issue? Is there a Solution to it? If there is, please let me know

Reply 1 of 3, by _Rob

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This is nothing specific to this game, this will happen with almost any game that is not designed to run from the install media.

You first need to mount a "c:" drive. For instance, you could create a directory "dosroot" and then folder mount that directory to be your C: drive. e.g., inside dosbox:

mount c: /home/myuser/dosroot

Assuming that /home/myuser/dosroot exists, and you have read-write permissions to it, it will become your C: drive and you can then install software to it.

Likewise you will also need to mount the C: drive when you restart DOSBox and want to play the game.

Reply 2 of 3, by FireLion

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Well, all i did was create a folder named "dosroot" in the myuser page, so it starts of with the computer drive, which i entered through that, then I went through the users folder, and since the macbook is an old school computer, i went through the student user where all the folders are, such as the desktop folder, applications folder, downloads folder etc. and thats where i created it. But because the installer file is in the .iso file, how would i get the game to install into there. (sorry if this was worded confusingly)

Here is the command I typed in dosbox: mount c: /users/student/dosroot
Then it says Drive C is mounted as local directory /users/student/dosroot, is that a good sign. I might need a step by step process on how to do it, i'm new to DOSbox

Reply 3 of 3, by _Rob

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If you have a box full of old dos games that you played back in the day, how come you don't seem to know anything about running said DOS games?

Once you have mounted a C: drive, which based on what you wrote seems to work, you now need to mount the ISO file, then you need to change to the CD-ROM drive and start the installer.

The instructions would be something along the lines of:

mount c: /users/student/dosroot
imgmount d: /users/student/cd/game.iso
d:
install

The installer may not be called "install", it may be called "setup", or something else entirely. You can use the DIR command to list the contents.