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DATE: 13-June-2008
Filed Under: USB Devices, How-to, Linux

Experimenting with a $5.00 Lexar USB Drive

I was cruzing through Wal-Mart’s clearance isle in their Electronics department and noticed that they had Lexar 512MB USB drives reduced to $5.00. There were three in the box and I decided to purchase all three of them. You can never have too much memory or storage capability.

I have wanted a USB device for a portable version of Linux and I have been planning on purchasing another drive for this purpose. There are two Linux distro’s that seem like good choices for a 512MB drive: Puppy, weighing in at 88MB or Damn Small Linux DSL at 50MB.

I installed Puppy on the first Lexar USB drive using Puppy’s Universal Installer. Use the following instructions: Download the Puppy ISO and burn to a CD. Run Puppy from CD and wait for the live CD to load Puppy into memory. Once Puppy is loaded click on Menu and Set-up and look for the Puppy Universal Installer PUI command. Click the command once. Linux only requires single clicks. Double clicks will spawn multiple windows. Choose the drive you want to install Puppy on from the PUI console and click OK. Follow the online instructions and use the recommended options. The process might have to be repeated if the defaults don’t work. Just experiment with the console options.

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