[mdlug] Shows how old I am.

[Raymond McLaughlin]

Mike Ward wrote:
> You guys have heard of this wonderful invention called "hard drives", right?

Oh yes, those delicate old mechanical things. I have heard of them,
they're unsuited to high portability.

> Heh, joking aside, I don't get the big deal with these flash drives. Why do
> I need to carry around 16GB that often?

I have a 4G for my "regular stuff". I got the 16 G for carrying around a
collection of ISOs. Also I'm hoping to make them bootable. So far I can
select to boot either Knoppix or Ubuntu 6.06, but only from files in
directories in the file system, not from the ISOs proper. My first
priority was to make the USB key bootable, and my first googling brought
up instructions for using isolinux to make the stick bootable. Getting
knoppix to boot was deceptively easy.

Since then I've taken a three pronged approach: googling for
instructions and tips from others who have done it before, reading the
startup scripts, and hacking the same, trying to get ubuntu 7.1 and/or
mepis to boot from the stick.

Maybe I should switch direction back to booting ISOs...