XP install hangs at "Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware..."

XP install hangs at "Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration", this is after going through the boot camp steps. Any ideas?! Is this a firmware thing? Thereotically xp install cd should be able to boot just by holding down the "c" key no?
what I used:
win xp sp2
mac os x.4.7
macbook
What I'm trying to do is get xp running off my external 15gb fw hd. I read on mac os rumours some guy did it successfully!

Can anyone confirm this?
Maybe someone from the Boot Camp Public Beta Forum, which is where you probably should be discussing this anyway.

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