Hi,

it appears that this problem has resolved itself as I have recently booted from a 'debian-40r1-i386-kde-CD-1' and installed successfully.

many thanks to anyone who has been looking into this - if you have any possible reasons why the 'hang' occured for future possible work arounds, then that would of course be gratefully received

regards,

Rob Hackett

email: r.j.hackett@bham.ac.uk