> I downloaded the 3 Fedora ISO's and burned (Win XP system) them to CD's.
> 
> When I boot with the Fedora #1 CD in the CD drive, it does not find a
> bootable image on the CD and eventually asks for a bootable disk in the A
> drive.  Note, the HD is brand new having never been partitioned.
> 
> When I boot with the RH 8.0 #1 CD in the CD drive, it boots well.

How exactly did you burn them?  In Roxio I would do File -> "Burn CD from CD 
Image" else you end up with a cd with an image on it and not the Image layout 
burned to the disc.