Struggling to install 2.7 onto my ancient Dell Dimension 8200. Any suggestions?

That old Dell machine It is running 2.5 but is full of issues.

So I downloaded the latest ISO file and burned it to a DVD.. Only to find the Dell only has a CD drive not DVD.
The image is too big to fit onto a CD!!

Next burned the ISO onto a USB stick. It took over an hour with dd under Cygwin...

Only to find that the Dell cannot boot from USB.

I am not an expert. I must have installed 2.5 years ago from a CD. I can't remember.

What can I do now to get 2.7 on there?

It still boots into Ubuntu 2.5 if that is of any use.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated as I want to keep using that machine.

I have since created a a new bootable partition on the spare part of the hard drive and then installed the iso image into it with dd...

I now wonder if / how I can swap to boot from that new partition at all?
And will I then be able to install into the old partition?

This thing dowes not have grub2 and not even grub.
I can't get it connected to the internet either to install stuff.

?

Regards
Bernt

berntd wrote:

That old Dell machine It is running 2.5 but is full of issues.

So I downloaded the latest ISO file and burned it to a DVD.. Only to find the Dell only has a CD drive not DVD.
The image is too big to fit onto a CD!!

Next burned the ISO onto a USB stick. It took over an hour with dd under Cygwin...

Only to find that the Dell cannot boot from USB.

I am not an expert. I must have installed 2.5 years ago from a CD. I can't remember.

What can I do now to get 2.7 on there?

It still boots into Ubuntu 2.5 if that is of any use.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated as I want to keep using that machine.

The images that were used with 2.5 were Ubuntu 10.04 and fit on a CD. It is possible to update that to Linuxcnc 2.7 using apt-get or Synaptic. I still have one machine running that OS version with the current release of Linuxcnc. It has been updated several times and started with 2.4.