I was going to suggest unetbootin, once you said you could boot from USB.

Get an 8gb usb drive just in case, that should be plenty. Download the 
Ubuntu ISO, and make sure to mount the USB stick before you run 
unetbootin!

On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, Tom Poe wrote:

> On 12/10/2013 11:49 PM, tclug at freakzilla.com wrote:
>> 
>> I don't know that your drive can burn DVDs.
>> 
>> Can you boot from USB? You might want to just do that.
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> Aha!  Google returned a result for an app called, UNetbootin ( 
> http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ )
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> I'll buy a USB drive, and give it a go.
> Thanks, Tom
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