Old Man <bill@witch.lan> wrote in message news:<X7KdnXYHtrmJ3UrdRVn_iw@comcast.com>...
> John Culleton wrote:
>
> > Is it usual to format a pen drive with a fat32 file system?
> >
> Jack's right. fat16. My mistake.

Following a specific recommendation I bought a PQI 128MB Drive from
Newegg.com for $31 including shipping. It seems to work just fine. It
came preformatted with one fat16 partition. Slackware and Knoppix both
recognize it as drive
/dev/sda. Mounting /dev/sda1 is trivial.

I want to release a package of software to the mutitudes on a Slax or
Knoppix type distro. The hangup is read/write space for those
afflicted with recent versions of windows, where the proporietary NTFS
format is the norm. The pen drive gets around that problem nicely and
at low cost.

Mission accomplished. Thanks everybody.

John Culleton