Thanks Ziyad and Ken for your replies,

Yes Ken there was a problem with name resolution. I saw your replies after the
fact since I was working in an area where I couldnt check for mail from this
forum. Anyway nslookup could resolve hostnames non authoritatively which led me
to beleive this was related to the problem so I decided to use /etc/hosts  to do
resolution. Once I did this I was able to first de-install framework and then
reinstall sucessfully... although I have to admit it was the 4th iteration of
this process that was finally successful . I have also continued on and
installed the NetView server code on this managed node.

Again  thanks for you replies

Greg Adams