On 10 Dec 2009, at 03:07, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
> ...
> I just burned the install-x86-minimal-20091103 iso on a cd and tried  
> to boot a relatively old machine with it.
>
> Here is where it stops
> ...


Have you tried SystemRescueCD?

http://www.sysresccd.org/Download

> Also, somewhere at the top of the screen output during the boot  
> process it says this is a LiveCD? I am confused here. Wasn't the  
> minimal iso not Live in the past?

I think this may depend upon your definition of a "LiveCD". To me it  
is an operating system which boots from CD & which requires no hard- 
drive.

Stroller.