[ale] My Next Computer

[Pete Hardie]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:50:26 -0500, Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> Pete Hardie wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:47:13 -0500, Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I don't know that you would want to go that route for your drives as well.
> >
> > Well, that's also partly driven by my wish to have easy-to-move drives
> > for my system and the wife's.
> >
> > As an aside, if I want a disk drive for general storage of MP3s and
> > pictures, accessible from linux and M$, what's a good filesystem to
> > use?  NTFS?  FAT?  Or are there ext{2|3} format readers for Windows?
> 
> What happened to world domination???

<shhhh>


> 
> I have an external usb/firewire drive that is 160g, I've seen the same
> model in a 250g.  You'll likely end up going with fat if you want
> writeability from both Linux and windows.

Ok, I can deal with that as a storage format, esp since all the flash
drives inthe house end up FAT32 anyway.

> 
> >>>So is this just a pipedream, or is an all-USB system possible ?
> >>
> >>I think the most difficult problem you'll have is getting it to boot off
> >>of a usb device.
> >
> >
> > Good point.  I thought I had seen something inidcating that "modern"
> > BIOSes could do this - in reference to a USB flash drive boot tool.
> 
> I've wanted to test this in the past as I've seen usb drives show up
> during Linux installs, but haven't had the time to play with it.

I've got a buddy that just built his own new machine - I'll ping him
and see if he can get a USB drive to boot.

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