[PLUG] Thumb Drives Re-Redux

[Jason R. Martin]

On 3/14/06, Galen Seitz <galens at seitzassoc.com> wrote:
> 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?

I have to step back and admit that my SanDisk is currently booting
DOS, not Linux.  That was accomplished using HP's tool over at
http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqdt/us/download/20306.html.
 The tool says it is for HP devices, but it works on many others
AFAIK.

Someday when I am feeling particularily smart I would like to get grub
working on the SanDisk, so I can boot whatever I feel like.  Today I
am not feeling so smart.

Jason