Mint/linux From Bootable Thumb Drive

I downloaded a Mint Cinnamon ISO and went to install on a thumb drive. It said the install was successful, but also there were 14 errors. I will likely have to try again with that. This is what I used: https://www.uubyte.com/create-linux-mint-bootable-usb.html
But I tried it out anyways, and it just booted in to Win 10. So I rebooted and went into the bios to change the boot order to USB first, but there was no USB listed there. The only three things were CD, HDD or PCI.
Oddly, they were numbered 3,4 and 5.

It's my wife's old work PC, Lenovo model 9964A7U. 32 bit, Intel Core 2 DuoCPU E8400. The BIOS date says 2010. Is it too old to be able to boot to the USB port. This is my first time trying something like this so it's probably me doing something wrong here.

 

On my older Lenovo you have to press Enter after powering on to interrupt the boot process. If there is a bootable USB device plugged in it will give you the option to boot to it. You cannot do it in BIOS. If no boot options then either there is no bootable device or your laptop cannot boot to USB.

 

Thanks Earthling and plodr, I will try both.

 

Ventoy is free and it is very easy. Download and run Ventoy, select the USB you want to make bootable, when the program finishes you'll have 2 drives - vtoyefi and ventoy. Copy the ISO to the ventoy drive and boot. The good thing is you can just keep adding ISOs to that folder and you can select them when you boot it.

 

Well I got the bootable USB working, but now our USB wifi adapter doesn't work with Linux. Can anyone recommend and inexpensive one that works with Mint? Is USB 3.0 necessary for an older PC?

 

Thank you.
I don't want to spend too much on it though since I don't game or stream video, just basic stuff. Just need it to work.

 

Perfect. I'm ordering it right now. Thanks again.

 

I just got linux mint installed and it went smoothly. I tried to use the disc to install the wifi adapter you recommended, but following the instructions I clicked on the autorun.exe and it only opened a folder with .dll files in it.
Any idea of how to get the adapter to work, or why the autorun.exe won't install anything?

 

The .exe was on the install CD for the wifi adapter. I've since found out that particular adapter is only for linux kernels 2.6.18-4.4.3 and I have 5.4.0-74. I haven't been able to find an adapter anywhere online that works with 5.4.0-74 or version 20.2
I guess I have to return this one. Do you know of an adapter that would work with my specs?

 

Thanks Philipp, I will try that.

 

I tried something else first that someone on a linux forum posted and it worked!
Hopefully this helps someone else with a similar problem. I hooked up to an ethernet cable and got all the linux updates. Then in the terminal, I entered the following one line at a time:

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kelebek333/kablosuz
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install rtl8188eu-dkms

Thanks for the help everyone.