This may be an off-topic post, but Chris is nuts for old HP laser printers and old Macs! A 2 hour drive, out of the blue, during the week, just for two printers... Well I guess that fits just about everybody on this list though... Anyway, to my point... This is off-topic, so taking it off-list is appropriate I believe... I have a Sun Ultra1 Creator. (170E, Open Boot 3.1, 128 MB RAM, 4 GB Quantum, 1 GB Conner, floppy disk... old 19" Sun color monitor, type 5c keyb, optical mouse w/proper silver pad!) Well, now that I finally got the Creator framebuffer replaced, it's time to load Solaris. Except that all the CD-ROMS I have aren't even seen by the console... And I tried the sector size jumper both ways. - Matsushita CR-503-B Compaq spare... - Smart 7 Friendly CD-R 4012 - Apple CD300 plus (found the Sun CD list that said these didn't work afterwards) I have a DEC RRD42 external CD drive here at work that I'm gonna "borrow" this weekend. Any tips, tricks, or other hints? Maybe something I missed? How about other options for getting this puppy running? Thanks to Sridhar and DaveM for trying to help last might... -- --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash