7.2 Install locks up during hardware detection

I've got a SuSE 7.2 install starting from the boot floppy disk. The 7.2 files will be installed via FTP. The boot procedure halts on this first diskette at this point: Starting Hardware Detection...

usb.3: read info

After that, it just hangs. The hardware is an iWill DBS-100 dual Pentium III 450 MHz machine, with one 256 Meg SDRam DIMM, an ISA Intel network card, two PCI Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 network cards, an ISA Soundblaster AWE32 with WaveBlaster daughter card, and a Diamond Stealth PCI video card. In the bios, I've disabled the Bios Keyboard, COM1:, COM2:, and LPT1: to free up some interrupts. I didn't see anything in the bios to specify USB services in general. Any ideas anyone? Argentium