Cannot boot from Hoary CD

[postmast3r]

On 5/4/05, Luke Venediger <lukev123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>  
>  I am trying to install Ubuntu Hoary on my Gran's computer (she is 75!) I
> believe it'll be easier for her to use and for me to remotely support.
>  
>  My problem is that I cannot boot from the Hoary CD. The machine is a
> Pentium 1, 133mhz, and I have set CDROM to boot first in the bios. When the
> machine starts up I get the foloowing message:
>  
>  Boot from ATAPI CDROM:
>  1 fd     system type - (00)
>  
>  And then Windows 95 proceeds to boot up (which is currently installed on
> the harddrive). I've thought about making boot disks, but I think the stiffy
> drive has seen better days (about 5 years ago). 
>  
>  Any ideas?

Did you burn Hoary to a CDRW or a CDR?  Some older machines have cdrom
drives that can't read CDRWs but can read CDRs.