My wife recently got one of those cool little USB flash drives. It came with drivers for Win98, so she was working on installing it on her Windows box; rebooted, stuck in the stick, and nothing happened. I said "hey lemme give it a try." Stuck it in my Linux box, saw the kernel recognize it in the system log, mounted /dev/sdb1 and voila! After some fiddling we finally got Windows to see it, but only by rebooting with it in the USB port, and after that it's still somewhat of a mystery...

It was a nice pleasant surprise, though, for something to be easier in Linux than in Windows! I was expecting hours of fiddling, kernel recompiling, etc., but nope!

most things are easier in linux

Yeah and people say that hardware doesn't work in Linux. Yet most devices come with drivers for windows and under linux they just work

I had the same experience with my flash drive, which worked easily under linux but I had to download its drivers from the net for windows.

That is great. Maybe you can help me. Here is the thread link:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ternet-736512/