net-install: USB keyboard

[Martin Kleinschmidt <mk@theochem.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

I have an itanium machine with only 4 USB connectors, no ps/2 or other. 
The USB keyboard is not recognized by the net-install CD's kernel (sarge).
The debian stable CDs do not boot at all.

any suggestions?

(the machine is running redhat 7.2)

   ...martin