>Then I would say that the DOS disks have to be corrupted - probably with some >6.22 files copied onto it (this was a common practice back in the DOS days) >when DOS disks were THE tool to have. Sometimes files of one version got onto >another. Have you tried a different set of disks? You can look at the dates of >the files on the disks. I believe they started dating the files based on >version with 6.00. > >Other than that, I dunno. Sorry Randy, looks like the install disks are fine. I've just re-installed 6.0 on a fresh reformat and am going straight into the STEPUP to see if I can get it past this stupid message. Since I can't get my hands on a copy of PC-DOS as someone else suggested, this will be the last straw.