create a c drive for dosbox

[FONT=Arial Narrow]hello i am new to ubuntu and linux I struggle a bit but I really enjoy it , I would like to create a c drive for dosbox i have found a great tutorial but I can not create a c drive i've tried

$ mkdir ~/dos/c

when i execute the command i get "[/FONT][FONT=monospace][FONT=Arial Narrow]cannot create directory"

not sure why

it would be great if some one had a tip for me

thanks in advance[/FONT]

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*mkdir* will not make more than one level of directories at a time. You can use:

mkdir ~/dos
mkdir ~/dos/c

or use the -p (make all parent directories first) flag to do this for you:

mkdir -p ~/dos/c

I am assuming you are doing this from the terminal, not DOSBOX?

You don't need to create a C drive for dosbox; you can mount any local folder as a drive with e.g. 'mount c /home/username/games/dos/gamename' and then 'c:' and then just launch the game executable with 'gamename.exe'.

you can also use a GUi froint end and just skip all this... for example DBGL http://members.quicknet.nl/blankendaalr/dbgl/