HD Install :: USB memory sstick drive



If your using a floppy disk that is in good condition, with no bad sectors,
your size should be 1.44Mb, or, 1,457,664 bytes...
Plenty of room for the 1.40 bootusb.img to fit ...
It is designed to fit on a standard floppy...

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ke4nt
So far, I've got 3 different USB sticks booting DSL (Lexar JumpDrive, BusDrive and an FMI generic).  Now I'm trying to do some fancy stuff and I find out that syslinux isn't passing user-entered options into the boot environment.  So if I type 'dsl restore=/dev/sdb2' at the boot: prompt, the restore option doesn't show up in /proc/cmdline (as verified with an echo statement in the linuxrc inside miniroot.gz).  I know user options work on the CD.  I was using them all week.  What the heck am I missing in the USB boot scenario? syslinux.cfg looks pretty much identical to the one in boot.img on the CD.

Jumping slightly OT for a bit, does anyone know if FMI is still making the generic 64MB sticks that CompUSA used to sell?  I like the form factor a lot. It's really slim, and will fit into a stacked USB socket alongside another plug without a problem (unlike the Lexars and BusDrive, which are too fat).  If not FMI, is another company making a similar unit?
"Microcenter" , in Houston,Texas runs ads in the local paper before Friday.
This past week,  they had a very long, but slim 256 meg usb stick
for $29.99 after the $15.00 rebate..

Boo on rebates, but LOVE the price!  :)

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ke4nt
Quote (ke4nt1 @ Aug. 14 2004,19:44)
"Microcenter" , in Houston,Texas runs ads in the local paper before Friday.
This past week,  they had a very long, but slim 256 meg usb stick
for $29.99 after the $15.00 rebate..

Boo on rebates, but LOVE the price!  :)

Hmmm... I don't see it in their national ad, but MicroCenter is good for doing regional stuff.  :(  I did happen by Office Max yesterday and picked up two of the Lexar 64MB JumpDrives for $19.95 ea.  They work well enough.  I just wish they were a little slimmer.  Here's what I mean:



The one on the bottom is that CompUSA stick.
If you want something REALLY small, check out the IStick or Intellistick, from PQI.

They are super small because they abandon the metal shield that protects the USB connector's contacts. This sheild will limit the minimum thickness of USB devices.

They range in capacity from 32MB up to 1GB and they are the same thickness as a Sony Memory Stick or a SD/MMC flash card:

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