Installing Linux on old dv1000

[thatmoney]

I have this laptop that i want to put Linux Mint Petra 16 on it. Since this thing is so, old it doesn't have the boot from usb option so, I go and burn the iso to a disc great. Make sure the boot order is cd drive first and insert the disk and restart. Starts up pauses a little bit and boots into windows vista. I have no idea what i am doing wrong I'm thinking that the motherboard doesn't support dual boot or the cd has a burn error.

 

[SchizTech]

It could be the dvd-rom drive. Is it a CD or DVD and is the drive a DVD drive? I've also seen a number of cases where a DVD-ROM drive won't boot any disk even if it works in the OS though another drive will. You might look into a replacement DVD-ROM (ebay? if it's old enough probably an IDE drive)

 

[Alabalcho]

Make sure you are burning the ISO as an image, not as a file
Make sure your laptop can read DVDs (if this is what you've burned)
Try booting the laptop with good known CD/DVD (restore disk, Windows disk) etc
Last - depending on whether on the Earth you live, you can buy a Linuc magazine with DVD inside which contains your distro.

 

[thatmoney]

It is a DVD inside a DVD drive. I'm pretty sure I burned the ISO as a file not an image. Going to reburn and test it again. How will I know if i burned it as an image? Will there be a file extension that I look for or will it just say its an image?

 

[SchizTech]

If you insert the disk into the drive of the system you burned it on to view the files you should see the installation files. If you see the .iso file on the disk you burned the file rather than the image.

It's a strange error, but I see it a lot: the DVD-ROM drive could well be at fault.

 

[thatmoney]

Ok then I did do it right then. Will check the DVD drive if I can find another DVD disk to use.

Edit: Tested DVD by having it load a printer drive on disk, it works fine. Pretty sure its not the DVD drive.

 

[thatmoney]

I finally made progress on getting this computer to read the disk. Apparently I burned the 64bit version of mint instead of 32 XD so, got a new disk and burned it in. Put the disk in the laptop and boot it up, revive a very weird error. EDD: Error 8000 reading sector 592901 No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found.
boot(This is a command line i think.)