[ale] Thumb drive games

[tom]

I purchased an 8 gig thumbdrive to experiment with using one as a boot 
disk for a new eeepc900? (I think I got that model right).

In any event, making a bootable thumb drive turned into an adveenture. 
Just like typing on this eeepc is. I had noticed on some web sites that 
some thumb drives are not suitable for use as boot disks, but not a word 
about why. I think I know at least one reason - some person/idiot added an 
emulated cdrom drive to the San Disk micro cruzer 8 Gig I was using, which 
got seriously in the way of making a bootable disk.

Anybody else run into this kink of idiocy?