[Discussion] USB installation

[Andy Willis]

Mark Brueggemann wrote:
>
> --- On Mon, 6/21/10, Phil Parker<phil at math.wichita.edu>  wrote:
>
>> No, why?
>
> Every other data appliance I use USB drives for - Doze, Linux, test
> equipment, my DVD player, even my TV set - you just plug in the drive
> and it's there.  I've never used USB on my eCS box and now that I see
> that procedure, I won't even try.  It shouldn't be that hard.  USB
> drives aren't new.  Finding it somewhat incredible that there isn't
> some sort of native support for that in eCS by now.  Or maybe I'm
> missing something?
>
>
> Mark Brueggemann
> Albuquerque, NM
Most sticks I've used were just plug and play.  Some have required a bit 
of work with the VCU (adding a volume indicator to the stick) but no 
data loss.  There are some problematic sticks that in order to work do 
require those steps (assuming FAT32 and not JFS).  In particular, many 
drives have no partition and are seen as a large floppy which only works 
on OS/2 if formatted as FAT and not FAT32.
Andy