I understand exactly what you are saying. I am just trying to show you maybe you need to rethink the steps you are taking. Slow down and research 1st before poking and hoping blindly.

That does not make any sense. PLOP cd has nothing to do with installation steps failing.

Why? It has worked for me on Floppy and CD for older computers. I use it to boot 1+ gig isos that do not fit on cd and I have no dvd drive to boot from. My Panasonic CF-48 tester laptop is a good example of this.

Lastly. If I was in the OP shoes for this statement.

I'd download and boot a http://iso.linuxquestions.org/search...mn+small+linux

or

http://womp.sourceforge.net/ >>>>>Yes, I have a cd of this.

And see if that boots. It fits on a CD. If it does not boot. Your image writer hardware or discs and reading drive to boot are screwed. Or. Inexperience covers a lot of territory.

Could it be that PLOP has changed or eliminated some drivers possibly? I can boot from usb using PLOP but all CD-Rs that I have tried since using PLOP do not work whatsoever.



I am going to take a break from this machine for now but I will give this a try first and let you know what happens.

Not sure. Because it depends who is sitting at the keyboard. If you installed plop. Which is a option.
The maybo so. I have never installed PLOP. I just ran it live. That was why a bunch of posts back when I recommended MX-15. I included a step by step video of what choice to make to boot from usb from the menu.

Seeing the menu has a lot of choices. Because I was not standing behind your shoulder here on the Mexican border and you sitting there in New York or New Jersey. There is no way for me to tell what you did.

So. Not sure.I know for a fact. PLOP does not eliminate drivers. But I do know it can be installed as a primary bootloader where the cd is not needed anymore. !st you boot plop from the mbr. Then a Linux usb drive from there.

I just got back from a 600 mile round trip so I am kinda whoozy from road fatigue. It has been a 20 hour day for me.

Plop didn't do anything other than cheat how the bios works to let a usb boot. Since it cheats, you can't predict how it will work on every system.

I've chosen to focus my limited attentiom on the more "recent" piece of the HP legacy hardware collecion I inherited which is a(n) HP ProLiant DL360 G4...dual 3.4GHz Xeon CPU...with options to boot from USB. Knoppix is the only distro that offers any usable interface ultimately. "Scuzzy" SCSI is proving to be difficult...especially with a very limited i6 controller and an ancient kernel. I have and am learning A LOT.

It does seem to be that I was dealing with an image writing/file transfer app issue which I corrected with RUFUS.

Thank you to everyone who has contributed, or will contribute, to this thread...

what a long strange trip it's been
 

Through countless hours of research and trial and error, I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on the HP ProLiant ML570 G2. I don't know anything about Linux but I am about to learn. Now that I have an OS installed, are there any suggestions as to what I should do first, second?

IA = Itanium Architecture.

I'd bet that any Itanium-compatible Linux distributions are fairly outdated by now. (As is the IA64, IMHO. The IA64 architecture may not be dead just yet but it's bleedin' bad.)

Sure.

https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/04/1...untu-16-04-lts

Use internet search term

To help you help yourself.

Linky