Many thanks to all responders Bittorrent finally came up with the ISO after just under 5 days - thanks to a single seed - somewhere in France - and an average transfer rate of approx 10Kbs - that's while it was actually transferring.
Now for the real install ;) B. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390