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First post, by Tarl

Posted on 2016-05-07, 00:57

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So I downloaded Daggerfall from Bethesdas website and also downloaded dosbox and put them on a flashdrive. Yesterday after a couple of hours I got Daggerfall to install but could get no further. I figured i did something wrong deleted both and reinstalled and now today when I try I did the exact same thing as last time but now I can't even install Daggerfall. Can anyone help me or tell me what I am doing wrong or what I can do to remedy the problem. I followed instructions from a video and used these prompts,

mount c E:\dosgames -freesize 1000

mount d e:\dosgames\dfcd -t cdrom -label Daggerfall

Like I said it ran the installer yesterday when I realized that after I type in E: to bring it up I had to type in dfcd\install for it to run the installer.

Is it impossible to run on a flashdrive or am I doing something wrong because like I said when I tried today it said E: is not valid and needs to be mounted.

Reply 1 of 8, by collector

Posted on 2016-05-07, 01:41

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If you are doing it in DOSBox, the drive you want is the one mounted as c:, so type "C:" to change to whatever you mounted C: drive.

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Reply 2 of 8, by leileilol

Posted on 2016-05-07, 02:08

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You could do it relatively if dosbox is located on the same partition.

Say you have DOSBox in

E:\dosgames\dosbox

And you can have these as your mounts:

mount C: .\..\
mount D: .\..\dfcd -t cdrom -label Daggerfall

So then it'll work on whatever drive letter the host OS assigns your flashdrive to.

I should mention that it's possible to mount the root of a drive without warning by supplying enough ..\'s

Last edited by leileilol on 2016-05-07, 02:12. Edited 2 times in total.

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Reply 3 of 8, by Tarl

Posted on 2016-05-07, 02:09

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Oh, see I had DOSBox in a separate folder, so if I have it in my dosgames folder then it should work then?

Reply 4 of 8, by leileilol

Posted on 2016-05-07, 02:12

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You don't have to move it there. It's just a way for it to be 'portable'. It might be a bad idea with stdout.txt possibly wasting writes on it though

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Reply 5 of 8, by Tarl

Posted on 2016-05-07, 02:15

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Nevermind just tried it, it still wont work says C:\>install is an illegal command and when I try C:\>dfcd\install it still won't work. This is very frustrating and add on to the fact I haven't used DOS commands in 20 years is making it worse.

Reply 6 of 8, by Jorpho

Posted on 2016-05-07, 03:07

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Just do a Google search for "daggerfallsetup" and you can find a nice pre-configured package that's all ready to go.

I don't know what you think you're doing, but a command like "dfcd\install" will generally not work as expected, as it runs a program from a different directory from any of its support files. Generally you would want to type "cd dfcd" and then "install".

You should probably review the 60 Seconds Guide.

Reply 7 of 8, by Sammy

Posted on 2016-05-07, 07:49

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create two seperate dirs:

E:/dosgames
E:/cdimages

put your daggerfall image (i think its dfcd.iso ??) to e:/cdimgages/dfcf.iso

then

mount c e:/dosgames (+ parameters like freesize, etc)
mount d e:/cdimages/dfcd.iso (+parameters like type, label, etc)

then you should have in dosbox a drive c: which is empty.

try:

C:
dir

and your cdimage at D!! not E!!

cd D:
dir

install

Reply 8 of 8, by Jorpho

Posted on 2016-05-07, 20:05

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Sammy wrote:
mount d e:/cdimages/dfcd.iso (+parameters like type, label, etc)

That would be "imgmount", not "mount", and it does not generally require parameters.

Sammy wrote:
cd D:

And that would be "D:". "cd D:" will not work, ever.

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