USB storage devices

[Aidan Gauland]

Hello,

 I have decided there are too many things too learn about  
customising live CDs to be worth it for me.  So I'm going to install  
DSL to a USB pen drive to play with.  BUT... how do I find out if the  
pen drive I have acts like a ZIP drive, or a hard disk drive?  Is it  
as simple as whether it has a partition table, or just one filesystem  
on the whole device?

 And on an unrelated matter: what would be the closest free and open  
source program to Microsoft Front Page?  I have never used it, but  
I'm taking this REALLY brain-dead distance course in "Internet and  
webpages", and the people running this thing said, before I applied,  
that using Linux would be no problem, and yet they only give  
instructions for MS Front Page.  I've just been using Emacs (which I  
prefer anyway), but I would like to know what would have the closest  
interface to Micro...MS..... oh don't make me type all that again!

-Aidan