ISO help

I need a little help. I have dl the large iso for booting & installing
gentoo on to a system. After using cdrecord I get a folder with boot 
images and 3 stages. The cd does not boot. what have I done wrong.
I have dled on two different machines & created cd on each.

cheers

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Rick Sivernell
Dallas, Texas  75287
972 306-2296
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Caldera Open Linux eWorkStation 3.1.1
Registered Linux User

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