I've got an old Dell d630 that's running xp and I want to use ubnutu on it. It seems to be a 32 bit machine and have been trying to boot it up from a flash drive with no success.
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The Dell D630 should be able to boot from a USB stick, if you prepared the stick properly.
Possible issues:
- USB drive draws too much power (some 8GB+ drives do) - solution: put a powered USB hub in between.
- Image file is not put on USB Stick properly - solution: use a program in Windows to put image file (.iso) onto drive, for instance using pendrivelinux.
If these are not your issues, you may need to use a DVD (not a CD, won't fit) to install Ubuntu. I would suggest using the LTS (14.04) with that laptop, which you can download from here - you can download the file and use a program (e.g. CDBurnerXP, etc) to burn to DVD (instructions are available here).
Also, after installing you might need to spend some time trying to fix up the networking part of the laptop (I have a D640, took some time to get the Broadcom chip to work) but it is possible to have Ubuntu working on it.
Enjoy!
