Re: Write an install image to a flash drive?

To: Bob Bernstein <poobah%ruptured-duck.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: Write an install image to a flash drive?
From: reed%reedmedia.net@localhost
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 09:04:59 -0500 (CDT)

On Tue, 20 Aug 2019, Bob Bernstein wrote:

> I want to use a flash drive instead of a CD to upgrade from an 
> old 'current' to our latest. This is being done on an ancient 
> emachine amd64:

"ancient"

In my experience some old systems just won't boot from USB flash disks 
well. In some cases, I have had to try over five different flash disks 
until I found one that worked.

Did you get any error message or information before it reverted booting 
from your hard disk?

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