no USB jump/flash drive support yet

[Russell Coker]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:08, "Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage at peaknet.net> 
wrote:
> Both of my thumb drives appear as /dev/sda and work perfectly. Other
> folks have reported their thumb drives appear as /dev/sda1. And there
> are some truly evil thumb drives that require Windows security drivers
> to access them. Has that possibility been ruled out?

Partitioning a flash disk is optional.  If you run mkfs on /dev/sda (thus 
removing /dev/sda1) then you will get an extra 30K of data storage.  Doing 
this may make it more difficult to access the device from other OSs, and 
makes it more difficult to make the device bootable (I couldn't get grub to 
install after making a file system on /dev/sda and had to go back 
to /dev/sda1).

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