boot failure trying to install linux distro from a cd

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Published on 2011-02-15T23:22:51Z Indexed on 2011/02/15 23:27 UTC
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Hoping someone can help me get this installation from a cd going. I'm using an older pc:

hp pavillion 2.66Ghz, 512RAM with a BIOS revision of 6/30/2003.

I reclaimed some an older drive (Seagate ST340810A) that seems to be working as its recognized in the bios (auto-detected)

I downloaded a mini.iso of ubuntu 10.10 that I want to install and burned the image to a CD for install.

My boot sequence is: First Boot Device [CDROM] and I disabled devices 2-4 so I can just force it to read first from the CDROM.

This old pc also has a separate CD writer which is a Sec.Slave, so the Sec.Master is the Toshiba DVD/ROM DSM-171 drive where I placed the burned cd with the linux distro.

So, with these settings I cannot get it to boot.

I get the "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER".

Where do I go from here? Thanks.

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