oh yea.... its an HP pavillion a1510n w/200gb hard drive in case its necessary to know.

What's the problem?

ok..iv installed the game on my hard drive as well as dosbox. first thing, i cant change z:\ to c:\ on the dosbox command prompt even after checking out the faq's and using the mount command. the reply when i do this is "usage mount drive-letter local-drectory so a mount c c:\windows directory as the c: drive in dosbox" which doesnt mean anything to me. also, iv tried to run the game in the windows command prompt and the screen will go black for a minute and then return to windows as if iv dine nothing.

i just read "how to ask questions the smart way"....oops.

ok new problem..... i got the z:\ to c:\ and got the prompt to go to C:\WESTWOOD\ but when i enter the KYRACD command (as the intallation process told me to use) i get "unable to load font 8FAT.FNT reinstall program" even though i did reinstall it. im stumped.

Which version of DOSBox do you have?
How did you "got the z:\ to to c:\" ?
Where did the WESTWOOD directory come from?
How did you reinstall it?

Question #1:Dosbox ver. 0.65
#2: in dosbox cmd prompt, typed "mount c". enter. typed "c:" enter.
#3: westwood is the file that contains the game itself (kyracd) was set to the new c: directory in dosbox. (if i phrased that wrong, check dosfreak's faq-newbies illustrated guide step#2 in the link above).
#4: inserted cd. "start", "run", typed "e:\windows\wininst.exe" with e: being my cdrom drive and followed installation prompts. (should it be c:\windows\wininst.exe?). also went through the SETUP prompts after install.

You might need to mount your CD-ROM drive too in dosbox.
Eg. mount e: e:\ -t cdrom

dreads311 wrote:

#2: in dosbox cmd prompt, typed "mount c". enter. typed "c:" enter.

That is strange. When I start DOSBox 0.65 and type "mount c" I get an error message???

And the "c:" also results in an error message.

Do you have a magic version of DOSBox that automagically correct your errors?

No matter what they say above me, you obviously got Dosbox to work and you are able to mount something as c.
But whatever you are doing, you are making a big mistake with this:

#4: inserted cd. "start", "run", typed "e:\windows\wininst.exe" with e: being my cdrom drive and followed installation prompts. (should it be c:\windows\wininst.exe?). also went through the SETUP prompts after install.

You are using Dosbox to emulate Dos not windows. so do as lofty says and mount your CD-Rom drive in Dosbox as well (mount d e:\)
then change dir to d: (in dosbox with the mount command I wrote, d: is now your CD-Rom drive e:) and then type install or setup and it should do something 😀
To recap, my suggestion is to type the following in Dosbox (followed by a return):
mount c c:\westwood
mount d e:\
e:
setup (or install)

This assumes you have a folder on your C: Drive called Westwood. In the install program let it install to c:\ and whatever program name it wants (C:\Kyrandia perhaps - on your real drive this would be then in c:\westwood\kyrandia)

It sounds like this is a DOS game but with a windows installer (might have a DOS installer too), so there "shouldn't" be a problem with installing the game from windows and running it from dosbox, as long as the CD drive is mounted in dosbox as well (with the same letter). Still, if there is a DOS installer, I'd use that like Dominus suggests, as Windows XP may be screwing up the installation what with the installer being written for an older version of Windows.
(and as a general rule, you should always use the DOS installer if there is one, because most (later) games with a Windows installer install a Windows version instead of a DOS version).

That and even worse, a lot of older DOS games can't even read the NTFS filesystem, so they can't even read the HD they're trying to install to, heheh 😜

That and even worse, a lot of older DOS games can't even read the NTFS filesystem, so they can't even read the HD they're trying to install to, heheh

That shouldn't be too often a problem as long as you start the installer in Windows.

60 seconds guide to getting your game to run in DOSBox

Thanks guys! will see if it works....

Getting the same error msg as minimax when i try to mount e even though i was able to mount c

Erm... this is pretty obvious. You're typing "mount c", which is not a complete command. The error message tells you exactly what you need to do: type "mount", followed by a drive letter, followed by the name of a local directory (that you wish to mount). So to mount "C:\Windows" as your C-drive, type "mount c c:\windows". To mount your real C-drive as your simulated C-drive (which isn't recommended), type "mount c c:\".

That is what MiniMax is trying to tell you.

To mount your real CD drive E: as the simulated CD drive D:, type "mount d e:\ -t cdrom".

ok.. mounted my real cdrom drive (E:) as D: and have the the Z: back to C:.
Now i cant get it to read c:\westwood. il have to experiment...