Since you didn't mention it, I assume you don't have an external SCSI CD-ROM. DO you have an internal CD-ROM you could temporarily stick in the VS3100? I have NetBSD/VAX 1.5 on CD, and drop a copy in the mail to you possibly... --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 ! -----Original Message----- ! From: Paul Thompson [mailto:thompson@mail.athenet.net] ! Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 10:36 PM ! To: Classiccmp ! Subject: Re: Unsing other Tapedrive instead of TK50 ! ! ! ! You can probably make a boot image on a SCSI hard drive for ! the Vaxstation ! from your intel box. I did this to make a system disk for a ! DECstation ! for which I had no tape drive. Just disklabel the disk and ! get the right ! files from the netbsd site and lay them on the drive with dd and you ! should be all set. You can install the rest of the distribution using ! FTP if you have a network. ! ! On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, lothar felten wrote: ! ! > hello, ! > i?ve got a VaxStation M38 with harddisk, but is has no drives. the ! > NetBSD-Install-HowTo says how to make boot-tapes (TK50). i ! > could make a boot ! > tape with my (ix86) NetBSD computer, but i have no ! > SCSI-TK50 tapedrive.