On 14/03/2018 13:42, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

In message , HB writes:

No, my job and family interfered.Â* I have to stop and pick up a flash
drive
as the ones I have don't have 2 GB of space left for this Ubantu. I
assume I
(Ubuntu, I think.) Might be easier to just use a DVD (though it will
boot slower). [Though see previous post about burning from an ISO not
just as data.] (You other guys: if he _does_ use a memory stick, is
there anything similar to ISO-ing a DVD that has to be done when loading
the stick, to make it bootable, or doesn't that apply?)

You have to write the image to the stick so as to make it bootable,
similarly to a CD/DVD - AFAIAA, you can't just copy the files across.
There is free software out there to do this. I use Rufus, but I believe
there are plenty of others.

http://rufus.akeo.ie

The OP should buy more than one USB stick, as sometimes they fail when
being written to, just as sometimes happens with CDs & DVDs. You can
buy packs of 5 x 4GB or similar fairly cheaply, and they come in useful
for other things as well.

F2 brought up InsydeH20 Setup Utility.Â* I got the Boot tab where it
can be
changed from HDD/SSD to FDD, LAN or USB.

Or, I hope, CD/DVD (or words to that effect).

As long as they're all listed, it shouldn't matter _too_ much, as that
list _usually_ just determines the _order_ in which the BIOS looks for
something bootable: if it doesn't find anything bootable on the first in
the list, it'll look in the next, and so on. Useful if you _can_ make
sure CD/DVD or USB (as appropriate) is first, though.

Yes, because if the HD is failing in an awkward way, it may prevent the
BIOS from moving on to try the next type of media. One of the first
things I change on any PC is the boot order to be as follows ...

Laptops: USB CD/DVD HD
Desktops: FD USB CD/DVD HD

I wouldn't imagine that many home users ever use booting via LAN, it's
more the sort of thing that corporate PCs might be set up to do.