Trying to install XP on external CD drive

I've looked around, trying to find out how to fix my problem but it I haven't been successful yet so I thought I would ask for help. I have OSX 10.5.5, I have successfully used Boot Camp Assistant to create a boot camp partition. I can see and select the partition in Finder. I have a full version of Windows XP with SP2. My internal CD/DVD drive does not work well, so I am using an external CD/DVD drive. When Boot Camp Assistant asks me to insert the Windows XP Installer disc, I do so, and then the then click continue where my computer restarts. I know this is where I should be restarting in my BootCamp partition and XP should start installing. However, the first time I tried, the computer just sat at the beginning screen with the gray background and the apple logo in the middle of the screen for about 15 minutes. I turned the computer off and when I restarted, the Apple logo started alternating between a question mark, a file folder, a circle with a line through it (like the no smoking sign without the cigarette in it) and the apple. I know this means the computer is looking for a hard drive. I pressed the alt/option button which did nothing, so I restarted again and pressed the alt/control button and was allowed to select the Mac HD, but it does not show any other HD that I can select. When I am back in Leopard, I can still see the partitioned hard drive, but I can not get the computer to restart and begin the installation of XP. I have read in several places that Boot Camp Assistant should ask me what HD to install Windows on, but I have never seen that screen, it just restarts the computer immediately when I press continue. I have also tried to do with while pressing 'C' to force the computer to read the external CD drive, but that gives the same result. Is this a problem with me using an external CD drive instead of my internal one? I can not use the internal, as a label came off from a CD I had out from the library and is stuck in there, making the drive spit out any disc within 20 seconds. Any help is greatly appreciated.

You don't say which MIni though...
A PPC/G4 Mini cannot boot OSX from a USB Drive, only Firewire.
An Intel Mini can boot from a USB Drive, but will not be as fast as Firewire.
If an Intel Mini is what you have, then likely the drive came formatted FAT32, and you just need to format it GUID/MacOS Extended first.
As far as drives, any of these...
http://eshop.macsales.com/search/firewire+drives

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