Installation Problems

[Matt Philmon]

I'm pretty new to the world of Linux and brand new to Ubuntu/Debian
having spent the past couple of months with Fedora Core 2/3. I really
love the Ubuntu distro so far and run it on my secondary machine at the
office (personal machine). I decided last night to try it at home on my
main machine, the difference being my home computer will need to
dual-boot Windows XP and Ubuntu.
 
Unfortunately I can't get past starting the initial installation at
home. It fails to find and mount the CD drive and asks if I want to pick
it from a list of (I guess) non-common devices or load a driver from a
floppy disk (which is funny because my home computer doesn't have a
floppy disk). 
 
I have an ABIT Digidice PC (P4 3.2 Gig, 1 Gig RAM) with a single "Mad
Dog Dominator 6-in-1 8X DVD+-R / +-RW" drive mounted as Master on it's
own IDE channel. The only hard drive is a SATA drive (Western Digital
SATA 160 GB) also set as Master. There is no floppy drive, but there is
a generic card reader included with the Digidice. I checked the md5sum
for my download (Warty i386 ISO) and it matched perfectly and the CD
burn went fine and the CD appears to be fine (verified).
 
I really don't know what else to do now. This machine boots from this CD
just fine but then the installer can't find the CD to mount... Windows
XP is already installed and working fine. Any suggestions?
 
Thanks,
Matt
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