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Questions:
Questions:

1) Why are the instructions only for Win or Mac users?
1) Why are the instructions only for Win or Mac users?

2) Does it matter what format the USB drive is? e.g. I have an ext3-formatted one. Can I use that? Or is FAT32 recommended?
2) Does it matter what format the USB drive is? e.g. I have an ext3-formatted one. Can I use that? Or is FAT32 recommended?

3) I have an 8GB USB drive. (In fact, most thumb drives are pretty huge these days) Do I really have to '''empty''' it?

Revision as of 14:40, 12 February 2009

SD Card Use

I did this with a SD Card (2GB Sandisk) instead of the USB Drive, and it seemed to work OK. - (portseven - 31 Dec 2008)

Questions:

1) Why are the instructions only for Win or Mac users?

2) Does it matter what format the USB drive is? e.g. I have an ext3-formatted one. Can I use that? Or is FAT32 recommended?

3) I have an 8GB USB drive. (In fact, most thumb drives are pretty huge these days) Do I really have to empty it?