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How to Automount multiple drives in Dosbox?

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First post, by fischer

Posted on 2014-11-23, 20:28

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My dosbox configuration file looks like this

1[autoexec]
2# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
3# You can put your MOUNT lines here.
4
5@echo off
6mount C: "C:\Tasm 1.4\"
7c:
8cd tasm
9cls
10tasml

In addition to the C drive, I would like to automount a D drive that points to another directory. Basically I need both drives at the same time. This didn't work

1@echo off
2    mount d /whatever
3    mount C: "C:\Tasm 1.4\"
4    c:
5    cd tasm
6    cls
7    tasml

Don't event test that because your computer will freeze when you open dosbox and you'd have to restart it, at least that what happened to mine.

Reply 1 of 5, by collector

Posted on 2014-11-23, 22:01

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Any directory you mount has to exist. "/whatever" is no folder on Windows.

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Reply 2 of 5, by fischer

Posted on 2014-11-23, 22:04

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is it a joke or are you serious 😀 that was just an example 😀 say i want to mount "/home/example" and I am not using windows, I'm on ubuntu, anything can exist 😀

Reply 3 of 5, by Dominus

Posted on 2014-11-23, 22:58

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Normally you can mount anything through the autoexec section.
But it has to exist and if those spaces or tab in your example are real, maybe Dosbox is not prepared to handle spaces or tab instead of commands.
If you are on linux why c:/tasm 1.4 ? With a mounting like that it's no wonder that Collector thinks you are on Windows...

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Reply 4 of 5, by fischer

Posted on 2014-11-23, 23:09

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I dont know i downloaded this http://sourceforge.net/projects/tasmforwindows/

and installed it in wine and it wrote those lines not me, i want to mount another drive in order to use TASM without having to mount it everytime, coz the C is reserved for tasm compiler and everything.

btw good job on you guys keeping this forum active, i used many, so many forums dedicated to an open source project, like libreoffice and they are dead, you ask a question and you'd be lucky to get an answer after a week. I hesitated to ask here thinking no body will reply, great job, fast replies, good community

Reply 5 of 5, by Dominus

Posted on 2014-11-23, 23:15

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Now we are getting somewhere... Are you using Dosbox in Wine? Why would you do that?
And still, in Wine you shouldn't be able to mount anything without a drive letter. And check those tabs..,

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