Installing Windows 7 RC From and External Hard Drive?

I burned a DVD of the Windows 7 64-bit RC installer and successfully booted from the DVD. However, I hit the following error once the installer collects information about my hardware:
"A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD, of USB Flash Drive, Please insert it now."
I cannot proceed any further. Another discussion board noted that June 2007 Macbook Pros have had internal DVD drive problems from recent firmware upgrades. I seek an alternate installation method. (Would and external DVD reader work at boot time?)
I'm trying to make a bootable external hard drive that has the Windows 7 Installer on it. I have tried extracting the contents of the Windows 7 RC iso file, and then placing the contents in a FAT32 formatted hard drive with the GUID Partition Table. However, my mac does not recognize the drive as bootable. I believe I am missing the procedure needed to make bootcamp recognize the drive as bootable. The drive was connected by Firewire if that matters.
My computer currently runs Mac OS X Leopard and Windows XP SP2. I have no access to a machine running Windows Vista.
How can I make a bootable external hard drive containing the Windows 7 installer for my macbook pro?

You can't get there with GUID/GPT.
There are tips on making a USB flash device that is bootable.
You can set aside a small 6GB partition somewhere and put Windows 7 installer there and run it WHILE IN Windows.
Windows Vista can be upgraded in place to 7 RC.
You'll need NTFS (30-50GB).
Windows doesn't support FW for booting.
You can create a drive that has Master Boot Record.

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Have a look at this post ((http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12308829&#12308829) for a short answer.
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