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I'm sorry, my computer vocabulary is not the best.
I'll describe what happens with each cd, maybe that will help.
With a windows xp cd, it gets to the point where it asks to press any key to boot off of the cd. I press enter, screen goes blank. At this point i'd expect it to go to the blue screen and start uncompressing windows setup. But it stays blank, which i guess means that the systems is haulted.
With the SUSE cd, the cd boots into the installation menu. At this point if i just do a straight installation, just like with the xp cd, the screen blanks out and does nothing. If i change the display mode to text mode, it will do the "uncompressing linux crc error system-haulted" .
With the partition cd, the menus for the settings flip by while you pick the settings specific to your computer, such as video card type, etc. When that finishes it tries to start what i think is the main menu, but again the system is haulted during the process.
I hope this will better help describe what's going on.