DOS based ISO mouter?

[Bodine]

Does anyone know of a DOS-based tool that will mount ISOs?

I do server support and have made a bootable memory key with a bunch of floppy images for firmware/driver updates --I just copy off the batch files and binaries from floppy to different directories on the key. It's nice b/c I don't have to copy around 5 different diskettes for every model server I deal with, or tote a diskette drive along and wait to burn the diskettes.

What would be even better is if I could mount ISOs on the memory key (when booted to DOS). We hae several tools that are DOS-based bootable CD's. I'm always losing discs or leaving my copy with customers, and it would be nice to run it off the (1G) mem stick rather than track down a blank CD to burn another copy.

Does such a thing exist? I run daemon tools but don't see anything about DOS mounting.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Use a Linux-based multiloader, perhaps?

I know there's CDs that can do it - don't know about a USB stick.

- M4H

 

[Bodine]

Thanks. CD's would defeat the purpose, since that's what I'm trying to avoid. I'm already booting the memory stick to DOS, which is why I'm looking for a DOS-based ISO mounters, so I'm not sure how a a multi-loader would help. They're DOS executables, so DOS is the only thing I can boot for this to work.

thanks for the suggestions.

 

[statik213]

Is there any particular reason why the discs have to be as ISOs? Can't you just extract the files straight on to the flash drive?

edit: BTW there used to be a DOS utility called fakecd that could mount a directory as a CD-ROM drive.... not sure if that was ever expanded to work with ISOs

 

[Bodine]

Originally posted by: statik213
Is there any particular reason why the discs have to be as ISOs? Can't you just extract the files straight on to the flash drive?

edit: BTW there used to be a DOS utility called fakecd that could mount a directory as a CD-ROM drive.... not sure if that was ever expanded to work with ISOs

That's an interesting point. They're ISO's on my hard drive, which is why I was focusing on that. I guess it might be possible, since I'm running daemon tools on my hdd, to just copy over the contents of the ISO to the memory key. It will probably get messy with a bunch of files going to the root, overwriting my config/autoexec... but worth a try.

 

[statik213]

Originally posted by: Bodine

Originally posted by: statik213
Is there any particular reason why the discs have to be as ISOs? Can't you just extract the files straight on to the flash drive?

edit: BTW there used to be a DOS utility called fakecd that could mount a directory as a CD-ROM drive.... not sure if that was ever expanded to work with ISOs

That's an interesting point. They're ISO's on my hard drive, which is why I was focusing on that. I guess it might be possible, since I'm running daemon tools on my hdd, to just copy over the contents of the ISO to the memory key. It will probably get messy with a bunch of files going to the root, overwriting my config/autoexec... but worth a try.

Create directories for each iso file?