ENT Linux on intel 965 chipset  based systems

Hi
I am unable to install ENT Linux on my new Box (intel core 2 duo / dg965whmkr MoB / 2 G RAM) . Issue is installer fails to detect CDROM.
Anybody succeeded installing ENT linux on a similar config like mine. Please help
Regards
Reju

Reju,
I have looked and searched the net for the information and all I have found out is that there has been installation on the same hardware with a number of different versions of linux but they had to use a external USB CD-ROM to install it, it did not work with the standard internal CD-ROM with kernel lower than 2.6.18.
Maybe this helps or maybe not, but unfortunately this is the only thing I found out!
Ricardo

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