Must be your box. I just downloaded and installed it from Sun's official source at "http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/6.0beta/" I also downloaded and installed both Adabas and the Player [powerpoint replacement] and everthing worked just slick.) Suggest you check that you're not running out of space during the download. Hope this helps'idly, -S Lorry wrote: > > I tried to download staroffice 6.0, but when it gets about halfway > through my computer starts beeping frantically at me and won't shut up > until I stop the download. I've tried several times from different > sites and I get the same results. What does this mean? > > Thanks, > Lorry