The partition should contain the .iso files, not copies of the contents of these files. The may be in a directory such as FC2-test3-binary-i386.After booting from the first installation CD and selecting harddisk as installation source, the following message is generated: "The Fedora Core installation tree in that directory does not seem to match your boot media."
I've copied the downloaded iso images to a FAT32 partition and selected that as installation source. How should the installation tree look like?