> I have recently purchased hamm on cd from dvd rent (Victoria, Australia) > and tried MANY times to install You might want to try making a set of rescue floppies and booting from those... Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/