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First post, by FredMM

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Hello all,

I'm trying a simple thing : to allow a game to run I need some folders to be mounted as a cdrom. The game and the dosbox.conf file are included into a ZIP file.

The issue I'm facing is that it seems that under Linux I need to provide the full path of file on the host not the virtual dos environment and of course I have no idea of what to use ?

DosBox Pure under this device will mount automatically C: at the level of the ZIP file containing a folder ("Kmoon" in my case) and the dosbox.conf file.

What path should I use to be able to mount my disk1, ... 4 folders as d,e,f, g CD ROM mount ?

I've tried a lot of things like case of the folder name, using "", /, etc... without any success. It worked under DosBox running on a Windows PC as I was able to write the host path to the folders.

Thank you a lot for your help !

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Reply 1 of 3, by wierd_w

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you are attempting to give a short path.

Give a fully qualified path instead, and use quotation marks to escape it.

EG.

mount d "/home/SomeUser/kmoon/disk1" -t cdrom -label DISK1

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ALSO, be aware that paths on Unix systems are case sensitive, so ENSURE that your path has the correct case as required. See for instance, the CDROMTES subfolder in all caps. It was created as a folder in dosbox after mounting drive C (which is under the dosgames folder) and DOSBOX creates folders in all caps. If you did the same, ENSURE that the case sensitivity is preserved!!

Reply 2 of 3, by FredMM

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Thank you for your message wierd_w. The 'extra' complexity I see to figure out the full path is that it's running on MuOS with a 'SomeUser' that I don't know (will investigate) as it is retrogaming handhelp device where I don't really login using my account. The other tricky thing is that I'm using the run into a ZIP file feature of DOSBOX Pure meaning that I don't know if the ZIP file is going to influence in some way the full path of the folders.

Reply 3 of 3, by DosFreak

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This question should be asked to the devs of DOSBox Pure and/or their forum if they have one.
This forum is for the official version f DOSBox, if you want you can create a thread dedicated purely to DOSBox Pure for those kinds of questions.
This is to eliminate confusion due to fork differences.

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