UPDATE!!! I went to Staples tonight and picked a 256MB SanDisk Cruzer Mini drive. Also took my Suse 9 live eval disk with me to make sure it works in linux. Walked right over to a gorgeous Sony Vaio, rebooted and up it came no problem. Slapped the dive into a usb port and up it came.
I did check the properties and apparently it is a FAT file system and actually registers as 245 MB. Thanks for the help with this tuff guys. I am trying to figure out exactly what I want to do with it, but have lots of time for that. Cameron > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Neil Bower > Sent: April 20, 2004 8:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] InstallFest: May 1st > > > On Tue April 20 2004 13:18, Cameron Nikitiuk wrote: > > I am hoping to have a USB flash drive by then. Thought I would > throw the > > seed out there so we can be prepared for it. > > > > I may be bringing my big box so that I can review my install with some > > folks and do some fine tuning on it, but if I can get my USB > drive by then, > > I may decide to play with that as well. Not sure if it will be > a 256 or a > > 128 yet (obviously I am hoping for bigger). Which while I am on the > > subject, I know the fujifilm and verbatim ones list Linux 2.4.0 > or higher > > for OS support, but should it matter if a drive doesnt? I was > thinking of > > the Sandisk titanium 256 but to my knowledge there is no "listed" Linux > > support. ANy thoughts on that? > > > > Also looking for suggestion for a distro to install on the > drive. I would > > ideally like to be able to have the OS and be abel to transport data as > > well. Probably looking at using it as portable storage as well as a > > portable recovery/testing kit. If needed I can always carry a > CD with me > > and do a distro that way as well. I have some of the business > card CD's so > > could use something a mini-distro thatw ay as well > > The Verbatim USB flash drives come with a FAT32 file system > installed on them. > Off the top of my head, the encryption aspect is software that > you install on > your computer. I don't think this software was available for > linux, otherwise > just using the key as a storage device is quite capable. > > I have taken a 32Mb Verbatim key and partitioned it to 2 - 16Mb > partitions. > One I formatted with a FAT file system, and the other partition I > formatted > with an EXT2 file system. > > I use the FAT filesystem to be able to connect to Windows > machines and have a > few programs on it such as WinSCP, PuttY, and vncViewer, as well as a few > files I backup for work . > > I basically use the EXT2 filesystem for my GnuPG files. The nice > thing about > the EXT2 partition is that it is not read on a windows box. The > one thing to > keep in mind with using the EXT2 file system is that the files are stored > with the UID/GID and will belong to whoever has those numbers on > a particular > box. If you want to be able to use it between different boxes, > ideally you'd > want to make sure that you have the same UID/GID on all your boxes, or at > least have the power to CHOWN the files. > > HTH > > Neil Bower > Registered User # 323470 > ( http://counter.li.org) > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
