If you're trying to play the game with the CD mounted, then yeah you have to apply a label. I just break the CD check and don't bother mounting it. When installing it doesn't matter.

Another thing I discovered (which someone may have mentioned in a post somewhere, but so far I haven't seen it) is how to access DOSbox's configuration file. Most of the directions I've found assume you're running on a windows, so tell you to access the start menu. According to UESP.net,


to open DOSbox's configuration file.

Anyone more technically inclined, feel free to let me know if I have this wrong (as I'm not at home to test it yet).

That's right because I added it (which was slightly altered by JKing). And it was mentioned in that link I gave you, an equal variant was.

I don't mean to sound ungrateful for the help, I really am appreciative, but I couldn't open the files from the download you linked to, and, on the forums, I couldn't find any Mac specific directions on how to edit the DOSbox configurations without having a start window. Like I said earlier, I'm sure it has been mentioned somewhere on the forums, but I never could find it.
edit:going back, now I see where you mentioned it, and actually I noticed it yesterday when all my trouble began, but when I tried it then, it didn't work, probably because some of my earlier newb mistakes that I have subsequently forgotten about.


Again, thanks for the help. You (Mr. Oblivion) and Taemos in particular have been very helpful, and I wouldn't have figured anything out without your help. But there are little things, like how to edit the DOSbox configurations, or the fact that on a mac you need to use " ~/" instead of "c:\" that probably are considered so basic by anyone who knows anything about DOS, that no one the forums thought to point them out to me. It took trial and error, looking at various instructions sets, some which use c:\ and some that use ~/ for me to figure out why none of my early attempts seemed to get me anywhere.

That's why I bundled that set together, since it can become very confusing.

Isn't it more confusing to link to a bundle that include multiple installation guides with no real explaination of their differences without reading them all? And not everyone wants to download extra stuff either (especially not from a non-elderscrolls site), doesn't want more guides but instead want a helpful conversation that includes a friendly suggestions for a solution rather than "the question you asked is answered in the download I linked you to" over and over.

Not saying the bundle is bad btw, but it's really not fit for everyone even if it may include an answer someone is looking for.

Well crap. it never ends. Now I'm making sure to include the "-label daggerfall" and it still tells me I have the wrong CD. Worked fine last night, now it doesn't.

Okay, finally got Daggerfall running by bypassing the the CD emulation by going into z.cfg and altering
"pathcd d:\dagger\arena2" into "pathcd c:\dagger\arena2"
(or who knows, maybe something else is making it run now)
but when I actually start playing the mouse and keyboard are so slow as to be basically unresponsive. As long as I'm clicking through menus in character creation I'm fine, but once I try and move around and actually interact with the world, no dice.
/sigh. So much for reliving my high school years. Guess I should just go back to Oblivion and Fallout 3.

Repeating it over and over within a short period of time is rather bothersome. People don't even know guides exist (which is rather sad). Basically I am saying to try Bethesda's, then try the next one, then try the next one, and then come here if none of them work. People continually ask the same questions without even lifting a finger to search for the answers that have been out to there for awhile. So I bundled it so I could link them to a set of instructions that will surely answer their questions.