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Originally Posted by Guest
I knew it was the only thing that would work, or so I thought.
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No, that's never the case. If the game needs to find itself at the (virtual) path "c:\gateway2\", you can of course install it at the real path "c:\gateway2\" and mount c:\ as c:\, but you can as well install the game at "c:\users\...\dos\gateway2\", and mount "c:\users\...\dos\" as c:\
It's all in the DOSBox manual. The key is understanding real and virtual, which is hard at first.
Mounting in itself doesn't do anything. The danger is in case you make a mistake afterwards, that whatever you do in DOSBox will be done to the whole disk, whereas if you mounted a particular folder as virtual hard disk, whatever you did even by error in DOSBox would be necessarily limited to the folders mounted as disks.
The most common and catastrophic scenario is when somebody has the habit to mount the whole real C: drive as virtual C: drive, and wants to install Windows 3.x or earlier in DOSBox. If he chooses the default installation path C:\Windows (and DOSBox is running with admin privileges), he will in fact overwrite his real host Windows and destroy it.
On the other hand there's no problem in mounting anything as a virtual CD, since they're read-only, and DOSBox won't change any file in a virtual CD.