Newbie need help installing

This is a discussion about Newbie need help installing in the Everything Linux category; I dont know if this is common sensse or if its my fault, but here it goes im going to do a dual boot with both xp and mandrake 9. 1 now i got the distro from one of the links on the board ended up to be a 680 mb file.

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I dont know if this is common sensse or if its my fault, but here it goes im going to do a dual boot with both xp and mandrake 9.1
now i got the distro from one of the links on the board ended up to be a 680 mb file. anyway i burned a total of 6 discs one for each image using nero burning rom 6. Then i also made a boot distro, and the floppy. Now i can go into the intstall but its asking for a scsi, and it says it cant find the cd install. Do i need another file or is there something else i need to do..
 
i have a hp a220n
 
a 120GB dma hard drive. ntfs seperated into two partition one 98 gb NTFS and a 3 gig FAT32 an amd 2600 and i beleive nforce 2 board. But everything seems to check out cept the cd roms anything i need to do to fix this cd drives are
primary Dvd Rom atape 16X
Slave Cendyne 48/16/48 rewriter
 
ive tried all the cds i have one for each image and nothing is there another file i need to get the one i got was Mandrake91-cd1-inst.i586
 
thanks in advance for any response any more info needed just ask

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