I think it is for storage - my usb stick broke down, i replaced it with my own usb stick and it bootstrapped completely from baremetal...
Michael

2015-10-28 17:30 GMT+01:00 Wilfried Woeber <woeber@cc.univie.ac.at>:

So, just out of curiosity...

On 2015-10-23 11:54, Philip Homburg wrote:
>[...]
> What normally cures it is to connect the probe to power and network
> without the USB stick, wait for about 10 minutes and then insert the USB
> stick.

This seems to imply that the probes can bootstrap (off the 'net?)  without
the USB stick present ? If this is the case, what is the USB stick used for?

> Philip

Wilfried