Note that it just occured to me that you may be trying to solve the wrong problem.
Instead of trying to install an appliance on the laptop's bare metal you'll find it is probably much easier to install it into a Virtual Machine (e.g., VirtualBox or VMWare) which can load the ISO into its "virtual" CD drive.
BTW, that's how we do most of our testing. Only rarely do we actually burn physical CDs.
Virtual Machine an alternative to bare metal installation
Instead of trying to install an appliance on the laptop's bare metal you'll find it is probably much easier to install it into a Virtual Machine (e.g., VirtualBox or VMWare) which can load the ISO into its "virtual" CD drive.
BTW, that's how we do most of our testing. Only rarely do we actually burn physical CDs.