Can't get off square one!

[appsyscon]

I downloaded RedHat 7.2 ISOs and burned them onto CD-Rs.
I downloaded Boot.Img and Rawrite, ran Rawrite to create Boot floppy of Boot.img.
When I boot from the floppy I get the Boot: prompt, when I press [Enter], I get the message "loading Initrd.img..." and then soon after i get "Boot Failed: please change disks and press a key to continue".
I am usinga Pentium II w/ 256MB and a DOS formatted hard disk (no Windows installed). I do not want to create a dual boot PC, I want to have Linux as the only OS. Currently there is 1 DOS partition on the hard disk with 2GB available. The BIOS is Phoenix 4.0 release 6.0.
Can anyone help me get started please?

[z0mbix]

Did you check the md5sum after downloading? have you disabled plug and play in the bios?

[bwkaz]

Depending on the BIOS (I'm not too familiar with any mfr's BIOS versions regarding this), you may be able to boot to the CD drive.

Put CD 1 in and try rebooting, to see if it will work that way.

[slapNUT]

If you can't boot off the CD then make another bootdisk. The quality of floppy's these days is horrible. I have them fail all the time right out of the box.

[appsyscon]

Thanks for your help. After 4 hours of downloading ISO images and another hour to burn the cd's and a few more hours spent re-booting and head scratching, a boxed copy of Red Hat from CompUsa for $59.99 looked very attractive. I got one, booted up - no more problems! Lesson learned!

[z0mbix]

I've spent hours downloading iso's before and found that they're naffed :( Just remember to check the md5sum if you download any iso's!!

[mdwatts]

It could be the cd's were not burned correctly. You need to 'Create CD from Image' and not just burn the single iso to cd.