The battle between me and the Sony laptop.

Have you ever tried to push the same poles of two magnets together? Well if you have that's how I feel. One of those magnets is Linux and the other is a old Sony Vaio PCG-XG39. I have so far tried 2 distributions. I have tried openSUSE, Fedorah, and I am as of now trying Linux Mint. I have a fresh CD of Linux Mint burnt (The first one was defective). I did get openSUSE installed but it just hanged there when I booted. The laptop for some reason does not like DVDs so the DVD for Fedora did not work (I did not use a live cd because the laptop is to slow). Well, wish me luck.