BTW, do you format the USB drive as FAT 32 or NTFS even though it will hold a Linux OS?

Thanks to all for the replies.

To Dave C: O was looking for software to image directly to a USB stick and now I know what to look for.

73,

Phil N1BOW

Actually, with the latest ISO image you can write the iso image directly to a USB stick using win32diskImager, the same way you would image an SD card for a raspberry pi. 

Also, I doubt whether you can copy, verbatim, the content of a ISO CD to a USB
stick, and expect IT to boot.

I will stand corrected !! :)

John

On 4/12/2019 9:25 am, John wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>
> I would suggest checking the BIOS on that MB to see it it allows a USB port to
> be bootable.
>
> 73 John@6163
>
>> On 4/12/2019 9:10:20 AM, Phil Zocco (n1bow@...) wrote:
>> > Greetings, IRLPers.
>>
>> I am in the process of updating node 5960 to a DN2800MT motherboard and an
>> SSD. I was able to find a board complete with 4G of memory on ebay.
>>
>> I have also been able to burn the ISO image Version 12.07 to a CD.
>> The only thing is in that clearing out my box of PC junk, I threw away my old
>> CD-ROMs.
>>
>> Then I noticed that the MB has no IDE port but it as a number of USB ports.
>> And the MB has SATA ports so using a PNY 120G SSD should work.
>>
>> My question is this: once I have burned the image to a CD, can I simply copy
>> all of the files from the CD to a USB drive and use that to install the IRLP
>> OS? IOW, will the USB drive be bootable?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Phil N1BOW
>>
>>
>>
>>