first time Fedora for me, any tips?

[Joe Casual]

Hello all,
I'm a former DOS junky from back in the early days. I've been a MS user for 
a long time. Lately I've found some time and an extra desktop cpu and want 
to get some hands on with Fedora and back to the CLI.

My UNIX experience is limited. I know a lot about computers and been around 
them for a long time, so I'm not new to the industry, just versed in 
different OS's. My UNIX experience comes from the early 90's using QNX. It 
was a great UNIX varient and I loved the guide / book for it. Beleive it or 
not, it was based (the support / installation book) on JR Tolkeins "Lord of 
the Rings". It stepped you through the complete installation of the OS. From 
mounting the CD, etc. It was all 100% CLI. I'm kind of looking for the same 
experience so I can fully learn this (even if it needs to be at a snails 
pace). I've downloaded the Fedora ISO's (4 of them) and burned them to CD's. 
The problem is, the first ISO is not bootable. Is there another ISO I need 
to download, which is bootable?

I'm going to put this on an Intel Celeron platform with a 40GB drive, CDR, 
1.44 Floppy, and some standard extra's (nothing fancy).

I would like to turn this box into an FTP server on my home network and 
replace my Windows FTP server. I would also like to run Apache, (some type 
of email service), and do some file sharing on my home network.

Any and all advice would be appreciated!

Thanks,
Chris