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Centos5.3 kickstart install not recongnizing USB CD/DVD drive

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https://www.centos.org – Have PXE installs working fine from a build server using kickstart. Trying to get a working bootable DVD working as well but am running into issues with the hardware detecting the CD/DVD drive upo... [by drew] (Distributions)

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