Help with installing games through DOSBox

[jackharvey]

Hello, I'm not the sharpest on computers and have been trying to Install Football Manager onto my laptop through DOSBox.

In DOSBox type:
mount c c:\games

"Now, assuming that your CD drive is D: type:
mount d d:\ -t cdrom -ioctl

(if your CD is E: change that to "mount d e:\..." etc)

Type:
cd d:

(to change to the CD drive)

Type:
install

(or setup or whatever the name of the installer is)"

I have followed this but when I type in "Install" or "Setup" it says Illegal Command.
Is there anything I can type instead to make it work?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Many thanks,
Jack

[Tawmis]

So where it looks like you're getting an error...

Rather than do:

cd d:

Just do:

d:


CD is a command to change directories. Not drives. You want to do just the drive letter you're trying to go to.

So for example, if you're in Drive D:\ and want to go to Drive E:\ it'd look like this:

D:\>E:

E:\>

However, if you were in Drive D:\ and wanted to go into the first folder in Drive D:\ called "Games" it'd look like this:

D:\>cd games

D:\games>

[jackharvey]

Hi thanks for the reply. I've typed in dir on the cd drive and the only option to type in is autorun which comes up with DOSBox saying "cannot run this programme", so I'm guessing this game isn't compatible through DOSBox, unless you have any ideas what I could do?
Thanks for the help!

[Tawmis]

Hi thanks for the reply. I've typed in dir on the cd drive and the only option to type in is autorun which comes up with DOSBox saying "cannot run this programme", so I'm guessing this game isn't compatible through DOSBox, unless you have any ideas what I could do?
Thanks for the help!

Autorun is indicative of it probably being a Windows game. If it's an older game, even as a Windows game, it may not run on newer system.

However, that said - it's odd that it would only show "Autorun" in the CMD line. Usually there's other files - and at the very least - folders - which the autorun pulls the installer for.

What game is it that you're trying to install? That might help to know, so we can check if it was only made for Windows, or if it has a DOS release, or if it's a game one of us has, we can check if it has both DOS and Windows versions on it.

[jackharvey]

Football manager 2005 is the game, appreciate the help!

[Tawmis]

Football manager 2005 is the game, appreciate the help!

Yup, it's a Windows (XP) game. So DOSBox won't do you much good.

Minimum Requirements
OS: Win Xp 32
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz / AMD Athlon XP 1700+
Graphics: AMD Radeon X600 Series or NVIDIA GeForce 210
System Memory: 1 GB RAM
DirectX 9 Compatible Graphics Card

Recommended Requirements
OS: Win Xp 32
Processor: Intel Celeron E1200 Dual-Core 1.6GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4000+
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6550D or NVIDIA GeForce GT 230
System Memory: 2 GB RAM