[PLUG] Thumb Drives Re-Redux

Galen Seitz galens at seitzassoc.com
Tue Mar 14 21:42:45 UTC 2006


Jason R. Martin <nsxfreddy at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/14/06, Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> >
> > > Suddenly discovered a need for a thumb drive and need suggestions. I
> > > need 512 MB minimum, 1 GB preferred. Used is OK. Waterproof not a
> > > iissue as it will live in my backpack, not my pocket. I am not
> > > averse to Fry's or eBay. In fact there is a used SanDisk Cruzer 512
> > > MB right now for $15 + $4 shipping on eBay right now. But are there
> > > brand issues re quality, failure rate, etc.? And is there a good
> > > (translation: cheap) place to buy one locally? Any suggestions
> > > welcome.
> >
> > I'm using a 1GB Lexar JumpDrive without any trouble...
> 
> One thing I've never been able to do with a Lexar is make it bootable
> (such as DSL), which is easy to do with the SanDisk Cruzers.  If you
> don't care about that then the Lexar JumpDrives are nice as well.

I'm curious.  How did you go about making your SanDisk drive bootable?
I managed to turn my SanDisk into a readonly device while messing with
boot images.  Do you write the bootable image to the raw disk or to a
partition?

galen



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