using usb jump drive in a msdos-only os

[wkmacc]

Is there a way to set up msdos to recognize a usb jump drive to store files as on an a: drive?

dell 3Ghz syst   msdos only   

[Hedonist]

I don't know if this will be a help, might be worth a looksee here..

Good luck

[wkmacc]

Thanks for the info - I tried that a couple of years ago and just couldn't get it to work right.  I was hoping something else might have come along.

Thanks anyway.

[Geek-9pm]

was hoping something else might have come along

Well, yeah. Adter the Days of DOS lots of things came along so that upgrading DOS was not worth the effort. Now we have more hardware and more FREE software than before.
We have other kins of flash drives. You could get card reader that will work in a MS DOS machine. Not a USB device, but a flash card reader.

And why do you HAVE to use DOS? There are free OS that can do the job. Does the system have a Hard Drive? Does it have a CD-Drive?

Is this a old system with only a floppy and a couple of USB ports?

[wkmacc]

I'm using it on a ~3Ghz dell to collect data via a qbasic pgm.  The system was wiped clean of the xp os and just left with dos 7, which works fine for what I need.  If I loaded a win os (98 and >) I could easily run my pgm in a dos shell and switch to win to xfer data to jump drive.   Is there a freeware windows substitute out there?  Or something that would accomplish the same thing? (linux?)

Thanks!

[Geek-9pm]

Puppy Linux is very small and boots fast. You put it on a CD, boot it, mount and read your USB and copy the files to the DOS drive. Then reboot back into DOS.
Get a ISO CD image of Puppy at:
http://www.puppylinux.org/
 

[WillyW]

Anything here of use: 

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/069/1046069/yes-there-are-usb-drivers-for-dos

[wkmacc]

Puppy Linux is very small and boots fast. You put it on a CD, boot it, mount and read your USB and copy the files to the DOS drive. Then reboot back into DOS.



will it load as freestanding os on my HD ?  don't have a cd rom

[Dias de verano]

I have got a bootable MS-DOS 7 pen drive which has QBasic. It is FAT formatted and it is a breeze to copy files onto it and boot the PC from it.
 

[wkmacc]

I have got a bootable MS-DOS 7 pen drive which has QBasic. It is FAT formatted and it is a breeze to copy files onto it and boot the PC from it.
 
Outstanding!  Er, is a pen drive a jump drive?  If it is I can just run everything on it and data xfer is no issue.
Where did you find it?

[Dias de verano]

Outstanding!  Er, is a pen drive a jump drive?

"JumpDrive" is what Lexar call their USB flash drives. It is a brand. Names in common use for these drives are "memory stick", "key drive", "USB key, "pen drive", etc.

They look like this

Where did you find it?

I just bought a 128 MB flash drive (about 5 years ago), and using instructions very widely available on the Web, I made it bootable.

This is as good a place as any to start.

http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm

The method I used involved using the HP utility mentioned on that page.

[Geek-9pm]

will it load as freestanding os on my HD ?  don't have a cd rom

You have to borrow a CD Drive from sombody.
Or have then write it to  a HHD for you
Here is the tutorial.

http://www.puppylinux.org/wiki/installation/hdd-full-installation