Hi!

On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Rick Blevins wrote:

> Returning to Linux on a USB drive... found this video that refers to a URL
> that can do this from both Windows and Linux, haven't tried it out yet:

It turned out that the solution was, indeed, "Get a new thumbdrive."

Still no idea why it never worked on the old one, but it works like a 
charm on the new one (straightforward Ubuntu install).

-Yaron

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