Dick, You can use dd to copy the iso to a USB stick.
dd if=<iso file name> of=<usb drive(/dev/sd*)> bs=1M It's that simple. Regards, Ken On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 5:13 PM, Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/29/2018 04:32 PM, John Meissen wrote: > >> [email protected] said: >> >>> I've downloaded the Ubuntu MATE 18.04 iso file, copied it to a USB >>> stick, and >>> am trying to replace my old Ubuntu 14.04. But I can't get the machine >>> to boot >>> from the USB drive. >>> >> You can't just copy the ISO to a flash drive and boot from it. You need a >> tool >> like 'mkusb' to create a bootable image on the drive. I've been using >> this to >> set up a new system without an optical drive, it works really well... >> >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb >> > > Thanks. A clue stick is indeed what I needed. I've done this before, and I > even have it in my notes from the last install I did last July. > > On Ubuntu MATE 16.04, click System > Administration > Startup Disk > Creator. That tool is included in standard MATE (and other flavors of > Ubuntu, I think). Once created and plugged into the target machine, I was > able to boot to the 18.04 install tool, and it is proceeding as I type. > > Thanks again for the clue stick. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
