Lots of folks put it on a bootable thumbdrive and install it that way.
Thanks for your input and suggestions.
It is my daughter’s notebook laptop and she is currently in Spain. She is renting a router made by Astoria Networks (I believe a German outfit) and her Windows XP does not have a driver for wireless connection to that router. Windows update did not install that driver! But her cable connection via ethernet works so all is not lost.