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eagan

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Eric Agan is owner and chief engineer for Elegant Invention, LLC., a small technology start-up in South Bend, IN, USA.

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Comment #2818950
o_o Really? I've been listening for a mention, did I get one? - Eric Agan, Elegant Invention

Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 9:10 PM UTC
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Comment #2818936
We're supporting FAT32 because it's the most universally supported (and easiest to support). Other filesystems will be supported in future updates, for sure. In the meantime, the m…

Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 9:06 PM UTC
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Comment #2818923
Some BIOSes will, oddly enough, boot USB optical drives but not USB mass storage. No idea why, it may have to do with the fact that way too many USB flash drives have piss-poor SCS…

Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 9:03 PM UTC
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Comment #2818855
We're really pushing for Mac compatibility. Mac firmware is very picky, for sure, it seems to have very strict requirements for SCSI command support on optical drives. Resetting th…

Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 8:46 PM UTC
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Comment #2818833
That's what we're going for! Thanks for the support! Hope your boss does the pledge, the more the merrier! After working as a tech for several years, I know I always wanted somethi…

Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 8:41 PM UTC
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Comment #2818793
The isostick is also useful for some newer machines. Macs have a lot less problem booting images, as you mention. I've found that even newer netbooks don't like booting from USB fl…

Thu, Jul 28, 2011, 8:33 PM UTC