Booting Ubuntu 5.10 (OLD OS ALERT) Lacking CD-ROM?

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I am trying to boot Linux Ubuntu 5.10 from USB, and everything boots fine until it checks hardware for CD-ROM. Everything is loaded onto the usb drive, so I don't understand why it then asks for a CD-ROM. This could be completely obvious and I'm just oblivious, but any help would be appreciated.

Testing CPU: AMD Sempron
That's about all I know. I received this old PC off of someone who had no use for it and decided to take it apart and put it back together.
RAM: 64 MB
 
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Sometimes you can ignore the failure if it allows you. I had a case like this with an old game, and was able to just skip right over it.

My 2¢. That's an old CPU paired with such little RAM... It won't do much of anything..

Edit: attach a spare optical drive, install, and then simply detach it :P
 
What specific Sempron is it? Also, why that specific version of Ubuntu? I believe that one came out around 2005 but you'd still be under the min specs.

I'm surprised there's only 64 MB of RAM when the earliest Semprons were from the Socket A era (although maybe I was spoiled but I remember most of those systems having 256-512). You could probably find a spare 256 MB stick of SDRAM for pennies to spruce it up a bit.

With that limited amount of memory I'd lean on something like DamnSmallLinux instead.

My Pentium II 300 Mhz PC came with 64 MB of SDRAM for Christ sake ;)
 
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