I have a 5000/120 that had ultrix on it until the drives got 
fried.  Since we didn't have a backup copy of Ultrix, the only 
alternative at this point is to install NetBSD. 

  I was planning on installing NetBSD soon, but I'm not exactly sure 
which way I should install it now that copying the boot files from 
Ultrix is not an option.

  Here are the possibilities I have thought up with the resources 
available.  I would appreciate any suggestions on which one I should 
try first (or any other ideas):

1)  directly connecting the disk to another Ultrix machine and 
writing the boot label & boot files from there.  The main problem 
with this is that while I'm fairly sure that the owner of said 
machine will let me use it for a while, I don't think that there is 
much disk space free.  Also, it's only connected to the internet by a 
9600 baud modem, so download time might make it a less desirable 
option (on the other hand, I may be able to write the files to tape 
from my pc at home...).

2)  network boot the dec and retrieve the files from a PowerMAC 
running Mach10 (no, I didn't design this network :).  Only problem 
with this is that I've never booted from a network before, and I 
definatly don't know how to set up Mach10 for one.  Still, it 
shouldn't be that different from a normal unix machine.

3)  I also have a i386/NT machine at home that I could probably use 
to write the boot files to a tape drive if it would be possible to 
boot them.  The tape drive on the PC  is QIC-40/80; I'm not sure what 
kind the dec has.

Any help would be appreciated.

Matthew Orgass
darkstar@skypoint.com