Formatting CDs

[Karl Larsen]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Frank Cox wrote:
>>
>>>   The modern replacement is the USB flash drives that you are 
>>> starting to see along with gum and mints at the grocery store 
>>> checkout in gig+ sizes.
>>
>> I just sent in my claim form yesterday for a free 256mb flash drive from
>> Staples for purchasing two boxes of Avery labels.
>>
>> It would be nice to get it -- I don't have a flash drive at the moment.
>
> They are very handy - along with the external drives built around 
> laptop hard drives that go up to 160 gigs in a very small package.  
> The catch is that you'll need 2 to do the whole install or upgrade 
> job.  You can use a small one to boot, but copying the boot image is 
> going to wipe out anything else on it.  Then you need one large enough 
> to hold the dvd image (as a normal file) so you can select a hard disk 
> install and access it.
>
    Yes and the latest from Best Buy I got caught in was a 2GB Flash 
drive that with a $25.00 rebate cost $8.00. I have the tiny thing and 
use it a lot. It works fine on FC4 FC6 and F7 with no work. Also Windows 
of course.

Karl