Installation is straightforward, and I recommend choosing the Roland SCC-1 for music and the Sound Blaster 16 for digital audio. After you mount the CD, the game is installed with ORIGIN.BAT (not INSTALL.EXE) on the root directory of the CD. That will save many a headache trying to figure out why the game is not loading.
For any system, I highly recommend that the CD-ROM drive is D. I am assuming you are using the Enhanced CD-ROM version, most people do over the inferior (but original) floppy version. Getting the game running in DOS or DOSBox is no particular chore. In the spirit of the times, I offer this guide to get the most out of the game. I have beaten the game multiple times and really love it. While it has been unavailable legitimately for many years outside of eBay, GoG is now offering System Shock Enhanced Edition, which includes the original CD-ROM Enhanced version as well as a Windows executable to run the game on modern systems. However, once you get a feel for the game, you should be able to appreciate what it was trying to do. If you are used to DOOM and its simple controls, you are in for quite the learning curve.
Strange times.System Shock is a classic from the DOS gaming era, but trying to play it can be, well, something of a shock. There was a long period where it was this little known game series (beyond these forums), then NewDark comes out and then not long after that Night Dive came along and acquired the SS2 IP and things have changed over time to where they are now. Sometimes I can't believe how things have completely flipped for System Shock. That must be one mighty fine engine if all of those games, with their MASSIVE differences could still be incorporated in full without issue. Even after all these years, the original Doom still casts it's shadow. One tidbit of interesting info that I wasn't aware of, was that apparently this new version of the sourceport was done inside the "Kex Engine", which Night Dive used for Forsaken, both Turok games and Doom 64 (by the engine's creator Samuel “Kaiser” Villarreal who was quite active in the Doom community for a LONG time).
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