So you're using a .conf file with just an [ipx] and [autoexec] sections? When using a custom .conf file, you should ideally have the entire contents of the original .conf file.

Anyway, I expect the above [autoexec] will only run correctly if you insert "C:" on its own line after the "mount" command. Using a path of "c:\cd\xcom.cue" might work as well.

Jorpho wrote:

So you're using a .conf file with just an [ipx] and [autoexec] sections? When using a custom .conf file, you should ideally have the entire contents of the original .conf file.

DOSBox will just use defaults for anything not set in the custom conf. You really only need to specify what you want changed from defaults.

Jorpho wrote:

Anyway, I expect the above [autoexec] will only run correctly if you insert "C:" on its own line after the "mount" command. Using a path of "c:\cd\xcom.cue" might work as well.

Thanks. Perhaps I didn't mention but this is on Linux.

Still a) a full path doesn't work either - I've tried, b) the other relative path works just fine (i.e. '.' - for path to current working dir)

DailyFrankPeter wrote:

Thanks. Perhaps I didn't mention but this is on Linux.

Once you've mounted the current directory as drive C, you can then use imgmount on paths accessible from the mounted drive letter (if I'm not mistaken).

a full path doesn't work either

As in "imgmount d "/home/foo/bar/cd/xcom.cue" -t iso" ? That is odd.

Jorpho wrote:

As in "imgmount d "/home/foo/bar/cd/xcom.cue" -t iso" ? That is odd.

>imgmount d "/home/<me>/xcomapoc/cd/xcom.cue" -t iso
Image file not found.

Yes, as in that^. It doesn't work (DOSBox 0.74, Ubuntu 14).

> imgmount d /cd/xcom.cue -t iso
MSCDEX installed.
Drive D is mounted as(...)

This works fine by manual entry, but not from .conf file.

> imgmount d "c:\cd\xcom.cue" -t iso

Now this worked from the .conf file! But it would not have occurred to me to specify one path in terms of the Linux file system and the other one in terms of the DOS(Box) FS. Thanks for the hint though.

Well, whatever works. 😀

I was also going to suggest checking if there was any particular path specified in the .cue file. (.cue files are plaintext and include the name of the .bin file they are supposed to be paired with; I'm not entirely sure how DOSBox determines the paths involved if no path is explicitly defined.)

It might also come in play what is written in the cue file. It might be the reason why the imgmount with the full linux path doesn't work. (Edit: as Jorpho wrote 😉)
AND whether you just used the exact same commands in the dosbox prompt as in the autoexec section.

.cue file contains:

FILE "XCOM.BIN" BINARY
TRACK 01 MODE1/2352
INDEX 01 00:00:00

You might want to make sure that the case is the same for the file as it is in the .conf file. Unlike in Windows, in Linux case is important. So CD/xcom.cue is completely different from cd/xcom.cue

Good catch, same is true for XCOM.BIN vs xcom.bin in the cue file.