On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:06 PM, g <gel...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > i have no desire to use anything that is dependent of ms.
I never claimed otherwise. U3 is propietary technology by SanDisk, for Windows OS. The fact that U3 CDemulation-on-flash-drive can be hacked to allow replacing the cd image for any other cd image is, however, of use to Linux users as it allows booting Linux from a flash drive on older systems systems whose BIOS feature "USB-FDD" "USB-CD" and "USB-ZIP" as the only options and which can boot from a real (physical) USB CD but have problems booting from USB mass storage drives. One such example I found on the net: --- "My ThinkPad X60s does not boot from USB drives because of this. It supports USB-FDD and USB-HDD (and USB-CD, which works), but insists that my USB drive is a USB-HDD device, and thus fails to boot from the image on the stick." --- So yes, U3 is a propietary, windows-only technology, but the fact that it can be hacked to fit any ISO image (even linux) into its cd-emulation partition is very useful, if you ask me. Even if you need access to a Windows machine to do the initial hacking. (you could also do it under virtualbox, I guess). FC -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
