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Can anyone tell me if it's possible to boot DOS from a floppy and have autoexec.bat assign a drive letter to my USB thumb drive?
I'd need to know how to set up both the config.sys and autoexec.bat files.
So far I have the system finding the USB thumb drive using USBASPI.SYS, but what I think I'm looking for is a USB equivalent to the MSCDEX.EXE file to assign the drive letter.
Please Help.
Poverty struck.
Welcome to Windrivers poverty
a good deal of info here should put you on the right track.
I already looked there, but all these examples are for a USB CD, and all use MSCDEX or some other file meant for a CDROM. MSCDEX is the file that assigns the drive letter to the CD. What I'm looking for is something that will assign a drive letter to the USB thumbdrive.
I believe the bios has to support booting from a usb device But you want to boot from floppy and assign a drive letter that way.
you got as far as others did
darkhorse is back! with a new section - have a look at the cypress mass storage driver.
I've tried DUSE. Here are the results:
Starting.......
ASPI Manager for USB mas-storage Version 2.06
(C)Copyright Panasonic Communications Co., Ltd. 2000-2003
ID:0 LUN:0 = USB Flash Disk 1.12
DUSE version 4.4 Build 110 Release (General)
DOS USB Stack Driver with USB Storage Extentions
Copyright Cypress Semiconductor, 2000-2002
UHCI USB Controller Initialized (I/O 0x600, IRQ 11)
USB CD-ROM support enabled
CD-ROM : <Not Installed>
USB Drive support enabled
Drive D : <Not Installed>
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Config.sys
device=a:\himem.sys
devicehigh=a:\emm386.exe
device=a:\usbaspi.sys
dos=high,umb
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Autoexec.bat
@echo off
duseldr a:\duse.exe drives=1
Does anyone know what I need to do to "install" the USB Flash Disk on Drive D: as a device?
Has anyone else been able to load and read a USB thumbdrive from DOS?
Please help,
Poverty
With help from another chat conference, I finally did it.
My config.sys looks like:
device=a:\himem.sys
devicehigh=a:\emm386.exe
Device=a:\usbaspi.sys
devicehigh=di1000dd.sys
dos=high,umb
Nothing of any consequence in the Autoexec.bat.
And DOS sees my 512MB thumb drive and assigns it a drive letter.
Poverty
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