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Old 09-08-2012, 09:32 AM   #1
The Fifth Horseman
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I just drag the files from the download into dosbox.
As you can see yourself, the drag-and-drop method doesn't always work.
Please follow this tutorial to learn how to set up and use DOSBox correctly: http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=14406

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Originally Posted by BlackSun View Post
when I go to install it says "Cannot install SimIsle to the same directory you are installing from."
First lesson: the drives in your PC and in DOSBox have nothing to do with each other.
For DOSBox to access your drives, you need to mount them first - and the way you do it doesn't have to have much with the actual drive letters on your system (you can - and should - mount a directory as your DOSBox C drive).

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I only have 1 drive, so I partitioned it and tried to install from one to the other - Failed
Loaded the files onto a flash drive and installed from there - Failed
Loaded onto a CD and installed from there - Failed
get the same message everytime
Dragging the executable onto DOSBox shortcut makes DOSBox mount that executable's directory as the C drive. Where you dragged it from is irrelevant.
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