It sounds like you've already done all of the "hard" work?

I'm unclear on what you need help with.

Simply copy the games to the directory that you mounted in DosBox.

This guide has a little bit about what to do in Mac OSX. Perhaps the Linux thing is similar?

60 seconds guide to getting your game to run in DOSBox

The part I'm having trouble with is getting the game from CD ROM to the computer, and working. When I start reading about mounting the CD ROM drive, copying this and that, etc. I start losing grasp of the whole thing. In linux, do you need to mount the CD drive and then install, or copy all the files to the C: drive that was mounted, and install there as if it were the cd?

Thanks guys!

1. Where have you decided that your game should be installed? Which Linux directory will act as the C-drive in DOSBox?

2. What is the path to your CD-ROM? Is it /mnt/cdrom?

1. The place I'm installing the games is set to /home/matthew/dosprog/

2. The only paths I could find for my CD drives were:

/media/cdrom0
/media/cdrom1

I have two.

See if this little guide will work for you:

1. Create a directory for your game, e.g. "~/DOSBox-stuff/MyGame".
2. Insert CD in drive.
3. Start DOSBox.
4. In DOSBox, mount up DOSBox's drive C: and D:
   
   Z:>mount C "~/DOSBox-stuff/MyGame"
   Z:>mount D "/media/cdrom0" -t cdrom -ioctl
5. Install the game from D: to C:
   
   Z:>D:
   D:>install
   
   (or "setup", or whatever the command to start the installation is called. Check your Manual/Installation Guide for MyGame for the exact command to use)
6. Configure sound, configure graphics, ...
   
   (when you configure sound and are asked about stuff like IO/IRQ/DMA/High DMA addresses, please verify that you use the same values as listed in "~/.dosboxrc".
   
   If "~/.dosboxrc is missing, create it using the DOSBox command config -writeconf ~/.dosboxrc)
7. Start game.
   
   D:>C:
   C:>dir
   C:>mygame
   
   (or "run", or "play" or whatever the command to start the game is called. Check your Manual/Installation Guide for MyGame for the exact command to use)

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If you have more than 60 seconds to spare, use your favorite text-editor (vi, emacs, ...) to edit "~/.dosboxrc" and add the mount commands to the section named autoexec:

1[autoexec]
2mount C "~/DOSBox-stuff/MyGame"
3mount D "/media/cdrom0" -t cdrom -ioctl
4C:

That way, they will automagically be executed by DOSBox everytime you start DOSBox.

Ok, everything worked. NOw, however, when I try and run the game, it locks up on a black screen, and nothing happens. The terminal is still responsive though, as I can turn the memory and frameskip up or down. If I try and toggle the full screen mode, I get an ErrorDialog:

Error: CONFIG: Loading settings .......

/bump