[olug] Best Brand for Bootable USB Thumb Drives

[Chris St. Pierre]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Rob Townley wrote:

> Recently, i took another stab at making bootable USB thumbdrives and had
> mixed luck.  Most would not work at all on any machine.  Some would work,
> but only on some machines.  Since i need to buy a set of these, i would like
> to stick to one brand that is known to work well. Anybody have a
> recommendation on a brand that is known for being more boot compatible?

I use a Kingston DataTraveler to kickstart all of our machines.  Works
great on all of the (mostly HP) hardware I've used it on.

Chris St. Pierre
Unix Systems Administrator
Nebraska Wesleyan University