going bonkers trying to install fc-5

[Peter Horst]

Boy, I am having such a hard time figuring out what's wrong here.  I had 
a couple of old beater computers, tried to install fc-5 from a cd set. 
Hash-verified, should have been decent disks, etc. No dice. Neither 
computer would "see" the boot disk.  Thought, "oh, well."  Needed a new 
box anyway. Picked up an emachines t-3418 yesterday.  Burned fc-5 iso 
disk 1 onto a new Taiyo Yuden 700mb disk - verified that the data is 
present & accounted for (SHA-1 hash matches). And still! Despite any 
changes I make to the BIOS settings, I cannot get this computer to boot 
from the install disk - tried booting from boot.iso, from the recovery 
disk, nothing. Obviously the common denominator here is me, but I can't 
figure out what I might be doing wrong.  Can a disk checkout hash-wise 
and still be bad? What am I missing here?  Could it be the windows 
software I am using to burn with?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Peter