Re: Running DosBox 74 and need to install Multi-Floppy Program
Example of Problem
<< c:\>imgmount b pdisk1.img pdisk2.img -t floppy
Using multiple files is only supported for cue/iso images. >>
For those that have been stumped over multi-floppy installs as I have
then maybe this simple method may help you through it. This is for
those multi floppy installs where some files on each diskette share
the same exact name. In my case, both diskettes had files called
'diskid.001' and a 'prog.dat' file on each disk. So copying the
contents of both diskettes into one directory is not an option here.
I stumbled over the following article and tested it out....
http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.p … goto=nextnewest
and scroll down to the post by FodderMonkey "Crude But Effective"
What I found was that if you open DosBox in desktop Window and create>
a directory called 'adrv' for A drive in DosBox. using the DosBox
'imgmount' you copy the contents of your floppy images into folders disk1 and
disk2 under your DosBox c drive so that you have this :
c:\>dir
Directory of c:\.
. <dir> 09-12-2015
.. <dir> 09-12-2015
adrv <dir> 09-12-2015
disk1 <dir> 09-12-2015
disk2 <dir> 09-12-2015
If your program is three or more diskettes then create the additional disk3,
disk4..diskN folders accordingly...
Create a psuedo A: floppy drive with :
mount a c:\msdos\adrv
in your DoxBox configuration file....exit out of DosBox and relaunch
So that when you go a:\>dir shows you see the contents of disk1
Proceed with Install and when the program requests you to insert disk2
pop out to file explorer and delete the contents of 'adrv' and copy
the the contents of the disk2 folder into the adrv folder, pop back
into the DosBox window and press <enter> to continue. Repeat the above
until installation is complete....
Observation....
First, I actually found it to work.
But secondly, I noticed that sometimes when copying files to 'adrv' that
while in windows file explorer all files appear, however, all the files
may not all appear when back in DosBox and executing c:\adrv>dir
For example, out of all the files that did show, install.exe did not show
in c:\adrv> after copying the contents of 'disk1' into 'adrv'. But I pressed
onward executing a:\install anyway and it launched and so I proceeded to
follow the above steps to completion....
Of course, I would appreciate a smoother solution but in the meantime to
get me through the problem this was good enough.
Good Luck!!
PS: I see in other posts, if I had pressed <ctrl-f4> while in DosBox then contents
of 'a:\adrv>' will refresh to show all files....
Good Luck!!
