"Tim" wrote: yes, I realized later you had unibus, sorry. I just ment an ethernet of any kind. I think rcp is part of the route install. I was for 4.3 on the vax anyway. I could swear I did this for 2.11 also but I have used scsi. I can check. Basically all you need to do is bring up the interface with ifconfig and then rcp the tar file. in slightly more detail - make sure the ethernet is at a 'standard' address; if it is the kernel will find it when it probes at boot tim - ifconfig the interface (i.e. ifconfig qe0 192.168.0.1) - create the file system on the partition you want and mount it (this may take a little study. presuably you've got "/" created and loaded. You now want to create "/usr". You'll need to figure out which parition that is on your disk and then newfs the partition and then mount it) - rcp the tar file to the mounted partition. this might take a little linux goofying around, as you'll be root on the 11. So in /root on the linux box you'll have to create a .rhosts. My /root/.rhosts says "vax root" and I made an entry in /etc/hosts for "vax" with the same IP address I used for ifconfig above. - untar the file. This is essentially what the tape based installs are doing and should match (in flavor, at least) what the BSD install instructions say to do. -brad