Comments on: Howto Auto mount a drive in DOSBOX

By: Nob

Nob — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:55:48 +0000

Hi,

I’m new with DosBox and I will use it to run some old DOS programs I have on floppy disk. I’ve a external floppy disk (USB). Ubuntu 10.04 put this drive under Computer with the name Floppy Disk.
Anyone a idea how to mount this Floppy Disk in DosBox?

By: 404

404 — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:00:45 +0000

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for

By: yogesh

yogesh — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 05:34:39 +0000

it worked as clockwork…..
thanx buddy

By: Linuxdoctor

Linuxdoctor — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:50:04 +0000

to make this global, put the conf file in the /etc directory.

ie.

/etc/dosbox.conf

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:46:41 +0000

Gaz: See the first post by Dominic. You have to tell it where your dosbox.conf file is.

By: flow

flow — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:35:31 +0000

ok, so i have POS software shared from a windows server.
in dosbox on a windows system:

i first mount the windows share as a local filesystem.

i setup a lpt1 redirect “net use lpt1 \\server\printer”

i then config dosbox to mount that drive.

i can then run the POS in the dosbox, and print to the network printer.

how can i do the same with dosbox on ubuntu?
i’ve mounted the shared filesystem via fstab, but dosbox can’t see it.

i cannot find a way to set up the lpt1 redirect.

help! this is a show stopper for ubuntu, as i must be able to run the POS software.

By: cookiemonster

cookiemonster — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:52:33 +0000

an easier way to set up an autoexec file. make a text file. put in these command lines. assuming it is c:\ drive and dosprog folder.

[autoexec]
mount c c:\dosprog
c:\

save this then change the file name to dosbox.conf and put in your dosbox folder.

By: Shrid

Shrid — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:17:34 +0000

omg Dominic thank you so much! I knew everything was set up right. I just couldnt get how to connect dosbox to the config file. worked perfectly on xp but not on ubuntu. now I have a shortcut on my desktop and everything’s in place.

Oh and if your arrow keys aren’t working, type this into the terminal just once and it’ll be fixed forever. Hasnt caused me any problems so far.

echo -e “[sdl]\nusescancodes=false\n” >>~/.dosboxrc

By: Gaz

Gaz — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:06:40 +0000

Alright… I’m using Linux here. I can get Dosbox to read a dosbox.conf file when it is in my home (~) directory. However, I’d like to put the dosbox.conf file in my ~/Dos_Games directory. Whenever I do that, Dosbox won’t run the file! It runs it fine when I have it in ~ though.

Any ideas?

By: Qui-ux

Qui-ux — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 07:53:06 +0000

Except Warcraft 2, won’t be using CD audio just plain MIDI.

I’m after a way to get Warcraft 2 to use cd audio.

By: bobdotexe

bobdotexe — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:28:35 +0000

when you mount and boot from an image, how can you use other Psychical drives with it?
like I mount a win95 image, and my flashdrive, win95 boots fine, but my flashdrive will not show up!!

By: frits

frits — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:17:16 +0000

Is that really necessary? On my system, after following admin’s suggestions, typing “Dosbox” in the terminal starts Dosbox with the new configuration settings. No need for any command line arguments…

frits

By: Dominic

Dominic — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:41:25 +0000

Hey,

This is missing one vital piece of info. To use your new configuration file with dosbox you have to tell dosbox where it is when you start it.

So if you used this command inside dosbox:
config -writeconf /home/yourname/dosbox.conf

You have to run Dosbox with the following commandline in a terminal or an app launcher:
dosbox -conf /home/yourname/dosbox.conf

This will then load your customised .conf file, including any mounting you have put in the [Autoexec] section.

Hope that helps,
Dom.