[mdlug] Install question

[Ron]

Dean Durant wrote on 2025-07-19 16:53:

> I thought I could just burn an Ubuntu image boot from the
> CD DVD player and run an install on it

Should work, we've all done it in the past.

Are the BIOS settings configured to boot from that DVD (or USB) drive 
ahead of any built-in drives?



> but it doesn't even want to see it
> sees the DVD drive it doesn't I don't know if my image is any good I don't
> know what could have gone wrong with it

I wonder how you created this disk?


> I'm wondering now about a network boot or a boot off of a USB data
> stick.

USB stick is the best way to do it - usually faster to write & read 
from. A bit finicky to set up PXE (network) boot.


> The information that I can find about this particular hardware they
> indicate that it should work with Linux I'm just wondering if anybody has
> any ideas thanks.

Can you explain how you created the disk?

Check the BIOS boot device order to ensure the DVD / USB are ahead of 
the internal drive.

Maybe try "burning" the ISO source image to the USB and trying that if 
the disk you already have can't be made to work.


Good luck!