Hiho, folks, I have been gone from the list for several months now. Seems like eternity. All my nice machines are very depressed because they get no attention. The VAX 11/780 is shivering in the garage, cold wants to run to warm itself up, but I have not enough time to let it. I am missing some critical pieces of information, to get it booted and install BSD on the RA90 disk that I have installed via UDA50. How do I make myself a boot configuration file that starts the system RX01 disk none seems to fit. And I don't know how to show the contents of these files on the terminal such that I could learn what those boot commands files do an how to enter them manually. I have no idea where to put the Unibus address and start address and all that stuff. I'm not even sure I have set the UBA50's address switches correctly. I also have installed a second RX01 drive and I was wondering how I can tell the console to show me a @DIR of that other drive? Is there a way to switch between the default drive or to give a unit number to the typical commands (such as @DIR)? My primary goal is to make copies of some of the more critical RX01 disks that I have, since some of the disks already have errors on them I don't want to loose my last console boot disk. I have asked some of these questions before but got no response, seems like noone has an 11/780 running. I would really love to get into touch with some person here who has a VAX11/780 or knows it so well to can give directions from memory. Aren't there 11/780 people here on the list? thanks, -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org