LinuxBeginner Mini HOWTO: Installing a USB Flash Drive

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 2, 2004

[ Thanks to robochan for this link.
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“Recently we were in need of moving data between our family’s
Internet machine and my childern’s machines. We have a single
machine that runs Fedora Core 1, which the kids use to surf the net
and chat. My daughter has a laptop running Red Hat 9 and my son’s
machine is running XP. Neither of their machines have Internet
access so they wanted a means to move files back and forth while
not being connected to the network.

“We decided a USB Flash Drive would be a nice device to try, and
felt the compatibility with Linux would not be an issue since I
already use a USB card reader on my workstation to transfer
pictures off my digital camera…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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