Trying to boot from USB

[milan7]

So I'm trying to install UBUNTU from a usb stick. I insert the usb in to my laptop, set it to boot from usb, and this is all I get:
SYSLINUX 4.07 EDD 2013-07-25 Copyright (C) 1994-2013-H. Peter Anvin et al

What am I doing wrong? The laptop is a ACER ASPIRE ONE
Thank You

[sudodus]

There are many questions that need an answer before we can give more than rather general advice.

- What system are you running?
- How did you make your USB drive?
...

The following wiki page might give you good tips

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick

[milan7]

Right now the its XP, I downloded Ubuntu installer, have Ubuntu on cd. Ran installer to make the USB drive.The computor I used to make the USB is Vista.

[ajgreeny]

If the computer previously ran Win XP it is likely that it is not going to be high enough in resources to run Ubuntu 14.04 well enough to be worthwhile. Try Xubuntu or Lubuntu and you may do a lot better.

Also make sure that the .iso image file you have is a true copy by comparing hashes as described at UbuntuHashes - MD5sum (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes)

What hardware do you actually have?

[milan7]

Intel (r) Atom TM CPU N280 @ 1.66GHz 997 MHz .99 GB of Ram

[ajgreeny]

As I said, try Lubuntu. You should have more luck running that.