Alpha 200 and FreeBSD 5.1 HELP PLEASE!

[Danny]

Hello everyone,
This is my first experience at FreeBSD and Alpha.  I have been attempting to
install 5.1 but continue to flounder.  Downloaded the CD images, burned them
and they appear correct.   Upgraded the Alpha to version 7.xx of the SRM,
thus I can boot to the floppy or cdrom.  >>>boot dva0 or .>>>boot dka500
respectively.  Problems I am encountering are:  

1.  The floppy disk mfsboot image when booted comes back with block 0 not
boot blockkkkk, blah, blah..  tried to use fdimage.exe on windows, and also
created an image from the dd command fron my Solaris box.  Neither work. 
Both give me the block 0 error.

2.  Next I tried to boot the cdrom using the mini iso and the disk 1 iso,
both boot, but then just cycle through the boot process over and over and
over.  I never get the menu choices of 1 - 5 after the message about hit
enter and boot or press some other key to go to the prompt or whatever it
says....  

Any ideas why I just can't seem to grasp what seems to be straight forward
and easy defined?  Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.  One other
thing I noticed is that during the boot process for the cdrom, the hard disk
seems to be getting checked.  

Danny