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[Jimbo1977]

Can anyone help me - Ive tried helping myself...to no avail by looking at previous forum entries but am not getting far. My problem:

I have installed dosbox and have set up so it is looking for "old games" in c drive, when I run the cd instruction I simply get "unable to change to" whatever it is I am trying to run....

It looks like this:

Z:\>mount C C:\oldgames
Drive C is mounted as local directory C:\oldgames\

Z:\>C:

C:\>cd oldgames
Unable to change to: oldgames


Any Ideas gratefully recieved as this is sending me a bit mental....

Thanks

Jim

[robotangel]

You've mounted c:\oldgames as C. Try a "dir" command to see what's in the directory. Or is in c:\oldgames another directory called "oldgames"? The try "cd oldgam~1".

Good old dos, 6 + 2 letters...

[milo]

read this if you haven't
DOSbox-the easy way to play
this is how i run all abandonia games...

[robotangel]

Buah, Drag n' Drop :help:



Or try DFend, amazing GUI for DOSBox. You can find it via Google. But maybe you won't need it if my solution works.

[Virgil]

Good old dos, 6 + 2 letters...

*ahem* actually 8 letters for name + 3 letters for extension ....

[samtam90]

Originally posted by Jimbo1977@May 13 2005, 10:48 PM
Can anyone help me - Ive tried helping myself...to no avail by looking at previous forum entries but am not getting far. My problem:

I have installed dosbox and have set up so it is looking for "old games" in c drive, when I run the cd instruction I simply get "unable to change to" whatever it is I am trying to run....

It looks like this:

Z:\>mount C C:\oldgames
Drive C is mounted as local directory C:\oldgames\

Z:\>C:

C:\>cd oldgames
Unable to change to: oldgames


Any Ideas gratefully recieved as this is sending me a bit mental....

Thanks

Jim

It's imply because you are ALREADY in c:\oldgames (you mounted c: in the folder oldgames). In fact, when you mount a drive in a folder, if you go to that drive you'll go directly to that folder.

[robotangel]

@Virgil

Yes, yes, maybe... I don't really know... Ymou might be right

[BeefontheBone]

You've already mounted that directory as the drive. Type "DIR /w" to see what's there, then change to one of the game's directories.

[robotangel]

If there are a lot of files it's better to try "dir /p". But I don't know what "dir /w" does. I'll try it...

[Virgil]

Dir/w displays the listing in wide format , with as many as five filenames or directory names on each line
Dir/p displays one screen of the listing at a time .To see the next screen press any key