<From: "Lane, Bruce A" &lt;B.Lane(a)PSS.Boeing.com&gt; < Gad, I'm beginning to get a REALLY good idea of what searching for <tough-to-find's can be like! < < Here's the story. I have several MicroVAX II's. I need a way -- ANY <way! -- to boot from a CD-ROM on one or all of them. < OR (4): A later model of VAXen (maybe a 3500, 4000, or 5000 series) <that is designed to accomodate SCSI from the get-go, and can boot from a <CD-ROM. Or a 3100, or vs2000 they have SCSI. <As a last-gasp possibility, I do have a functional TK30 tape drive. Any <chance that, if I copy the Ultrix distribution CD to a CompacTape II <cartridge, it would be bootable by the MicroVAX? Not likely if it's a copy. Though you likely can build a tape from the copy. <Fellow DEC'ers, I'm getting desperate. Please help me out if you can! <I've got at least three systems sitting idle and gathering dust because <I can't boot a CD on them at the moment. Join the crowd. Of all my time in computers starting back with the PDP-8s I've had the problem of I have W and the machine can read Y. Right now my vaxen know only rx50, rx33, or tk50. My PC knows none of those and the PDP-11 has those and RL02. allison