My ISO of Beta1 finished downloading last night, and I have confirmed that I can boot and install from it using the procedure at http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Installing_Mandriva_Linux#Installation_from_hard_disk
This gave me successive directory listings to navigate to the location of the ISO. I forgot to back up lspcidrake, so aborted the installation during the step "finding available packages." The applet has just told me that the media for urpmi have been wiped, which is normal. No issues so far. Doug.
