On 10 Dec 2009, at 03:07, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
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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
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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.