> According to Roberto Armenteros:
> >
> >What is the i386cd.iso image used for?
> >
>
> It is the bootable cd image.  From the sounds of it you did not burn
> the image to the CD correctly, laying an iso image onto a CD seems to
> be something that a lot of CD burner packages make inordinately
> difficult for some insane reason.  Check your burner software settings
> carefully to make sure the image is being put onto the CD correctly.
> The fact that the CD was not readable from windows indicates the image
> was not done correctly, you should be able to see the install sets on
> the CD from windows.

Or if you downloaded the images with the windows command line FTP program,
you didn't set the type to "binary" and the images are corrupted.