can't read iso file in boot process

[Despot Despondency]

Hi,

I'm trying to install Gentoo for the first time and I'm having some problems. I've managed to download and burn the iso file (I've tried minimal, liveCD and sytemrecovery), but when I try to boot the cd my computer doesn't seem to be able to read the iso file. I just have a blank screen for about a minute while the computer tries to read the disc and then it gives up and goes to the grub menu of the OS i already have on my computer. I think the DVD drive might be broken. Would that seem likely or am I being totally dense and missing something out of the boot process?

[smerf]

What "file"? You should not just create CD with single ISO file in its root dir, ISO is an image of whole disc.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=2#doc_chap3
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml#isoburning
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[Despot Despondency]

Thanks for your response. It seems the problem was that I was using DVD's instead of CD. Tried it with a CD and everything worked fine.