Hello, im yea definatly a but still ive used Redhat for like 3 weeks or so back about 2 years ago for the hell of it.

Well of course this is more of a general question because I cant even get the cd to boot. I know i have my bios setup correctly because i tryed using red hat and they load just fine. In fact I would use it but the Xserver is too old to allow me to use my Geforce 4 card. wouldn't allow me to startx at all so i got rid of it and im trying to use Gentoo

distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2004.0/livecd/athlon-xp/

Thats the ISO i downloaded and tryed to boot... i know i burned it correctly. ( used a new version of nero )

if you could point out what im doing wrong it would be Muchly appreciated. also if this is not a bootable iso could you point me to one that is?

did u burn it as an image?

in nero file > burn image

Yes i followed the diretions on Gentoo's site exactly ( very short and easy )

i have this disk right here and i can see all the files on the CDR.

You did mean:=
/gentoo/releases/x86/2004.0/livecd/universal/install-x86-universal-2004.0.iso
the bootable image right!

Yeah, you need to make sure you have a Live CD or it won't work that way.