some questions about info on mandrake sites and forums

here are a couple of qoutes from sites from wich i downloaded mandrake and forums of people speeking bad versions and stuff, let me know if i did something wrong

Qoute from forum:

- download the three correct ISO-files (Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download-CD*.i586.iso and not MandrakeLinux-10.0-rc1-CD*.i586.iso)


Qoute from the version of mandrake i have:

Parent Directory -
Mandrakelinux10.0-Official-Download-CD1.i586.iso 24-May-2004 12:09 695M
Mandrakelinux10.0-Official-Download-CD2.i586.iso 24-May-2004 12:10 695M
Mandrakelinux10.0-Official-Download-CD3.i586.iso 24-May-2004 12:11 695M
Mandrakelinux10.0-Official-Download.md5.asc 25-May-2004 19:33 485

It appears to be the correct one but i still cant boot :S:S:S
Help

what have you done so far with the downloaded iso's?

You've got to burn them to CDs as images. It won't do to simply burn the .iso files on CDs. If you pop in the CD and open it in a file browser and you see a single iso file, you did the wrong thing.