Yet another route is to get a desktop VMS machine (say, a 3100-xx, or an Alphastation) with a CD-ROM. Install VMS on the desktop machine, then boot the Microvax-II into the cluster and MSCP-serve all the disks (including the CD-ROM) between all cluster members. The hobbyist license kit includes the clustering licenses as well. Clustering is not only a powerful user tool, but a power system management tool as well. Resources on clustered VMS nodes are - for all important purposes - local after a machine boots into the cluster. -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927