When attempting to write to flash memory, why does netflash produce the error "VERSION - product name incorrect"?

This error occurs when attempting to write an image file that contains a different product name than that of the image currently stored in the flash memory. The following is an example of this and how to deal with it.

The SUZAKU profile names were changed in the uClinux-dist-20051110-suzaku3 release. In order to overwrite an image made from a previous release with one made from the uClinux-dist-20051110-suzaku3 or later releases using netflash, specify the -H option (ignore hardware type information).

[SUZAKU]# netflash -H http://local.server.name/suzaku/image.bin