Is booting/installing from USB CDROM considered supported?

[Martin Nilsson]

Martin Nilsson wrote:

> I tried to install our CD/FDD-less servers from a CD-RW drive connected 
> on the USB port, 
> I'll try with a fresh 5.2-BETA later today and see what happens with it. 
> in the meantime I just want to ask:

The 5.2-BETA CDROM hangs, it prints something like found /BOOT/LOADER 
... and then nothing else happens.

Does anyone know what might be the problem and where one should look to 
try to fix it?

The motherboard is a Supermicro P4SGE with an external 52x Asus CD-RW 
unit. I have tried with and without USB FDD, no differnce. WinXP 
installs as as usual (but very slowly) on this combination.

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Martin Nilsson, CTO & Founder, Mullet Scandinavia AB, Malmö, SWEDEN
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