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Mac OS X - Drive C will not mount. (PROBLEM SOLVED!)

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First post, by healie

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I'm here because I looked all over the web and I followed the tutorial of how to mount a drive on the mac OS X to a T and it simply will not mount.

I put the "Dosgames" folder in my Home directory with the game files inside.

I put in the command Mount C:/users/[my username]/Dosgames.

It says "This makes the directory ~/dosprogs act as the C: drive inside DOSBox. The directory must exist."

Now I'm not very skilled in this sort of thing, I picked up DOSbox in passing pretty much. It works just fine on my virtual machine, but I've tried several different directories on my machine and I don't know enough to figure out why the hell this isn't working myself. 😜 And I tried to look up some troubleshooting tips, and one was talking about mounting a root drive or something...I typed that command in and it said the same thing as above.

I haven't messed with any of the preferences/configuration files.

I just read that this info is needed for people trying to help, I'll give what I know!
Macbook Pro:
-Operating system: Mac OS X 10.6.6
-Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
-Memory: 4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
-And I did read the Readme file, although it wasn't much help.

Last edited by healie on 2011-03-04, 01:17. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 1 of 6, by bloodbat

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If you copied and pasted your mount command, you're missing a space and have a colon that shouldn't be there.
Try:
mount c /users/[yourusername]/Dosgames
or
mount c ~/Dosgames

Do keep in mind that Unix is Case Sensitive

Reply 2 of 6, by Dominus

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If your username has a space you need to put the path in quotes
For example:
Mount c "/users/my username/dosgames"
Or as bloodbat wrote use
Mount c ~/dosgames

@bloodbat, OS X is by default case insensitive

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Reply 3 of 6, by bloodbat

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I didn't know that 😀
Thanks for the advice.

Reply 4 of 6, by healie

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Everywhere I read it said that DOSbox does not recognize the ~ for your home directory on a mac.

And my username does not have a space.

EDIT: Putting it in quotes fixed the problem! TY. (My username is just my real name, rachel, which has no spaces, so I don't know why the quotes were needed!)

Reply 5 of 6, by Dominus

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Probably the quotes weren't the problem, the missing space and the extra : were the problem...
~ DOES work. Why trust sites when you can just try and get the positive result in a second?
Perhaps that didn't work for very old versions of Dosbox, sites tend to not fix their no longer true stuff

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Reply 6 of 6, by dada

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The ~ directory works just fine on Mac OS X. In fact, I think it's tedious to use it. I always make a new directory called C in the DOSBox program directory and then add

mount c ./c

to my autoexec. Works fine.

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