You should probably look at the contents of the batch files and the directory structure of the CD folder to figure out what the installer is looking for.

60 seconds guide to getting your game to run in DOSBox

thanks for the quick response

on following that tutorial i set up my c and d drives like they said to, same probs tho. on d drive as "/volumes/fg" and typing install it says again 'unable to open help.txt' with d drive as just "/volumes" and then going 'cd fg' 'install' it takes me to an install screen, press enter all goes fine until it asks me for disk 1 again, and again. no go. im must be missing something really simple.

dosfreak; i can only find one .bat (batch?) file, its readme.bat. cant figure out how to look at its contents.
correction; i missed the important one FG.bat. i opened it with textedit and saw only this:
cd exe
barena n
cd..

make a cd image and mount it with imgmount

i cant get imgmount from dos to get to my .iso file. it keeps saying the path dosent exist. its nearly the same as my C drive. i dont get it. i almost get the installer to work, if it didnt ask me for disk 1. any other tries i could take?

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imgmount d "path.iso" -t cdrom

thanks again for your patience and help.

robert, i tried the tutorial and your instructions on setting up the imgmount but i keep getting a Failure: path not valid. im sure its good tho, it works just fine if i set it up as a drive, but not on imgmount. any more ideas would be great.

post your mountings

my config file is setup with this
mount c "/Users/me/dosgames"
and at startup on dos it mounts as C fine
inside the dosgames folder i put in the .iso file and i try this line
imgmount d "/users/me/dosgames/fangen.iso" -t cdrom
and i get this
MSCDEX: Failure: Path not valid.
ive tried putting the iso file elsewhere on my users directory but the same error pops up.
again, if i mount the image on OS X and find it with DOS i can mount it as D "/volumes/fg" but on typing Install this path gives me a Help.txt not found error on install or a Illegal command: barena on trying to run the FG.bat file. if i do D as just "/volumes" and then CD FG and type install it runs the install program and asks me for disk 1. im guessing these problems are all related and im having some kind of path problem. dunno, feel kind dumb.

try
imgmount d "/Users/me/dosgames/fangen.iso" -t cdrom

i did type Users instead of users to see if it was caps sensitive like you said, also ~/dosgames will do the path for me, i did both and got the same MSCDEX failure. also i tried the Dosbox wiki setup where you type in -t iso -fs iso and still the path is no good.
i tried putting dosbox in the same dir but it doesnt seem to do anything diff. im still all up for getting this game to work if you've got any more ideas, but if not thanks anyway.

does this work? (with small u and manually typed in dosbox)
mount c "/users/me/dosgames"

yes. my config file has it as Users instead, and that works too.

i know it has Users and it works. but i ask whether it works with users too, to figure out whether it is large/small letters sensitive or not

ive tried both and it doesnt work on either. is there some dir set up that i should try instead so dos finds the path easier?

i wanted you to check whether both work:
mount c "/Users/me/dosgames"
mount c "/users/me/dosgames"

robertmo, thanks so much for all the time you put in helping me out. guess what was wrong...my stupid stuffit didnt unzip the archive correctly. on a whim i tried another program and all of a sudden barena ran and the whole thing kick started from a disk image that i mounted from OS X in /volumes. stupid stuffit, sometimes its not DOS thats the prob but your own modern OS. tho i still cant get it to isntall (cant find read.txt error) i can run the game from the image just fine but not from a folder as cdrom. so ill keep trying some other stuff.

thanks again, blessings to you.

The error message "MSCDEX: Failure: Path not valid." is misleading as it is almost impossible that the file is missing or the path is wrong when it is printed. imgmount checks if the file exists *before* reaching that point and prints a different error.
Only if some process quickly deletes the file after the imgmount check and before mscdex is entered the error message would be true.

The "MSCDEX: Failure: Path not valid." error can be thrown up either if it has trouble opening the file (already open, bad media, low system memory ect.) or when the image type is not recognized by DOSBox. I vote for renaming the error message to something more realistic.