Re: install lenny on Dell

[Tom Poe <tompoe@meltel.net>]

Alan Ianson wrote:
> On Sat August 28 2010 04:54:01 pm Tom Poe wrote:
>   
> > I bring up stuff on my computer, and it has an icon with CD-RW/DVD-ROM
> > drive.  I downloaded a lenny i386 iso image, and used brasero to burn it
> > to a Memorex DVD+RW disc.  I shut down computer, started computer, got a
> > blinking cursor for a few seconds, and then moved to ubuntu (installed
> > operating system).  Does this sound like I have to go buy some other
> > discs, because my drive is too old, and can't read the DVD?
> > Tom
> >     
>
>
> I've had that happen to me once or twice and sometime after all works as 
> expected..
>
> You could also try booting the installer from a USB stick if the CD can't be 
> made to work. That's generally what I do these days rather than messing with 
> CDs
>
>
>   
My daughter has a USB stick, I think.  Does the computer see it as an 
icon like the CD/DVD drive?  I just double-click, and the default burner 
lists the stick as a device option?
Tom