okay dudes, i give it up. after 10 times reading intructions, i finally made it to a nlited cd. imho now i made everything correct.... but installing was already troubleful: booted with msdos, goind to cddrive:\i386 typed winnt setup began to copy alot of files to the hd, but not all needed. later in the setup i was asked for a agpXYZ.dll (i forgot the version. i looked on the $WINNT_yxz folder on hd, and it wasnt there, but it was on cd, so setup continued. same thing during "installing components" missing txfaux.dll. i found it on the CD and setup went till windows 2000 started. as happy i was i wanted directly go to windowsupdate, but... ... ... the folder c:\program files\internet explorer\ was empty. so no iexplorer on this system. During integration i got alot of file not found errors, but a guy asked for that in this thread earlier and it was said, its okay... I think its the problem that i dont know what kb files exactly i should put into the hf1 - folder and hf2 folder (there are so many out there) and no idea what file i should put into the mdac folder. (MDAC_TYP.EXE? or GER_Q832483_MDAC_x86.EXE? Or both?) As yo can see here i tried with german version. i adjusted the cmdfile from scripten.cab to scripde.cab. Could also be a problem of the language version. I will wait now for the new thingie from tommy and try it with an english version then... :'-( thx anyway tommyp, i know it must have been a s***load of work and testing for you. (also bilou) Ah, maybe i should have spent more time on it...