FREEZING at T-31 minutes (installing network)

[cyberthug]

this is really p***in me off!

I'm not sure what i've done, and whatt the problem could be...

My installation freezes at T-31 minutes when it says "insalling network"

I've tried it a bunch of times, I've replaced ALL the files in teh I386 folder with the original ones and tried again, but same thing over again!

The only thing I haven't tried is completely deleting the VMware files, and starting a virtual OS from scratch. ( during installation, I have also tried deleting the virtual partitions and also full formatting..but no luck)

I'm going to delete the files of VMware in a bit, but just wanted to know if anyone has had this problem before and what they think it could be.

Another thing, I wanted to know how ppl have edited their kernel files.. the one's used in HyperThreaded machines... the ntkrnlpa.exe etc... and if I could get a copy of their's if it's more complicated than editing the ntoskrnl.exe/oemkrnl.exe

Thank you.