Older PC question

[mdovell at comcast.net]

Again this a Athelon xp 2.2 ghz I think, 512 of ram…the system is five years old 

This is getting more than annoying because I’ve burned nearly a dozen or so dvd’s of ubuntu but most didn’t work well. I took the advice of going to a 32 bit one and it helped to a degree but not all the way. Basically on 9.04 on one of them I got to install at about 58% and it said there was an error (see 1-3 below). Then one to 75% and said it was an error as well. Oddly enough one did let me into the Live boot. I could actually go online with ease although the resolution was lower. I should note that my DVD’s are at least four or so years old. Some were these top of the line (at the time). Is there any way to maybe download it while it is on the live cd? If I download a iso and boot from dvd would it recognize the iso and reboot from that? 


I'm starting to think that one or more of the following is true. 

1) my dvd-r's are old and not that good 

2) the hard drive on the pc isn't reading or working well 

3) the dvd drive itself has to be cleaned. I think I have a cleaner cd somewhere in the house. 

Has anyone else had problems installing? 



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