Thanks for your reply. This post limitation is a huge turn-off, it hampers discussion and prevents following up on any problems. I urge understand this may be to limit abuse but it also limits the resolution of problems and I urge you to review it.
Thanks for the advice @giacomo, I have just tried to install it with the command you mentioned but unfortunately the results are the same - I am still stuck at the "Configuring system, please wait..." stage. In the meanwhile I went one to get an account with Luna Node and easily did an image of the iso and mounted on a Virtual Machine. I am now finally trying it out.
I believe Nethserver would be ideal to set up in an inexpensive VPS - you can easily get an OVZ with enough resources to run Nethserver for less than 50$ /year. Support for venet would open up a huge market for the project.
Just my two cents...
By the way, really enjoying it so far, though still early stages. A lot of great add-ons though I've been having a few issues with some of them, like the openvpn which I haven't been able to get it working so far. Look forward to learn about it and to be part of this community.
Thanks for your help.
Fred