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The laptop is currently running Fedora 10, since that was the last OS I was testing/playing with. I don't have any copies of Vista to install on it, just XP. The problem with running the DVD from inside windows is that W7 only supports upgrades from Vista, no?

I am trying to install Windows 7 on an older laptop, which does meet the minimum requirements. The problem is that the laptop cannot boot from DVD. I have tried a few things thus far, like: 1. Connected an external DVD drive via USB only to find that the laptop is not able to boot from USB...