> > Hello, > I have an external USB cdrom ; I have a machine which does > not have a VGA card and not a standard IDE socket so you > cannot connect a CDROM internally to it ; it has USB port; I > want to install CentOS using an external USB cdrom on this > machine, through the serial port. > > Is there a way to do it ? I am quite desperate about it. > > The motherboard DOES enable configuing the BIOS to boot from > a USB device. Regards, IB Try append console=ttyS0,38400,n8 For using serial port 0, and 38400 baud Gerald