linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] What next?

*Let me ask.... do you understand the difference between a media storage usb device and a usb drive device ?* And then what names do you give them ? Thank you for answering !

I really do not grasp your problem you are running into. To keep it simple, simply you walk into a RiteAid store and go to the computer stuff aisle. You see there a bunch of these usb devices we are talking about. There are two kinds that kind of look identical actually. You pick one up and it says it stores up all kinds of media files and pictures - like the 2Gig or 4 or 8, whatever size. You look at the other one that has the word DRIVE on it USB Drive which also can store all types of media files.

The POINT is the first one is NOT a drive and if you try to use that to put a Linux ISO (distro) it is not going to work. The second one that looks the same BUT has the word DRIVE on the package is the one NEEDED to use for the discussion sake of putting Linux on a USB Drive and running on a laptop/notebook/netbook or desktop with a BIOS supporting that - going way back to older computers around the time of Win98 and XP did not - CD/DVD only with Linux burned on.

I suggest you just drop the apples and oranges descriptions and simply understand, as you say you wish to, that unless the USB device product says on the package that it is a USB "Drive" - then it is not going to be able to be used to do all the things everywhere posted of how to use that to install Linux posted everywhere on the Net.

The two terms for the two different products I used go way back to the middle of the last decade and at any computer store or other selling them.

You wrote....
<<<I'm genuinely being curious here, because it appears you've had bad experiences with an entire class of USB devices I have never heard of before. (Unless Media Stick IS the same device that is named at different times, USB Stick, USB Key, ThumbDrive, USB Storage Device, etc).>>>

I really have no clue aas to what you are reading into my post, no clue. I have never described ANY bad experience with any usb device. As to where you get "an entire class of USB devices I have never heard of before" - I have no clue as to what you are talking about. You *need* to explain yourself.

gerald philly pa usa
PICTURES ? TRY;
https://www.google.com/images?hl=en&biw=&bih=&q=usb+media+stick+storage&gbv=1&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ei=tag4U7exEtLjsATf8IG4CA&ved=0CD8QsAQ

On 3/30/2014 10:16 AM, J wrote:

On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 3:57 AM, G.LinuxDucks <g.linuxducks@gmail.com> wrote:

The distinction is the two different USB devices. One is the USB Media Stick which is used for storing media files. This will NOT operate as a drive, which is the other kind - a USB Drive which will run portable softwares and launch and install ISO's (distros) - and again, you can NOT do that on a USB Media "Stick".

Do you have pictures of these USB Media "Sticks" as you call them? Googleing for that gives me all sorts of info on Thumb Drives, USB Sticks, and USB Keys, all of which are interchangeable terms these days. I've heard of "Memroy Sticks" but that odd term tends to refer to things like the Sony MemorySick and MSPro form factor of memory card. Those are more akin to SD/SDHC type memory devices than USB storage devices.

In fact, I do not think i have EVER seen a USB storage device that fits the description you give of a "Media Stick".

I'm genuinely being curious here, because it appears you've had bad experiences with an entire class of USB devices I have never heard of before. (Unless Media Stick IS the same device that is named at different times, USB Stick, USB Key, ThumbDrive, USB Storage Device, etc).

Cheers

Jeff

P.S. is THIS what you mean? http://hsti.com/products/wirelessmediastick

which does NOT store anything, it's more like a Wireless Dongle, not a storage device and really has nothing at all in common with usb keys than the fact that it has a USB port and is roughly the same shape and size (like most other wi-fi, bluetooth and similar dongles).