On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Vance Dereksen wrote:

> Is there any way to boot a DECstation 3100 off of a floppy?  Or two

	Yes, if you're fortunate enough to have a SCSI floppy drive. With
the proper changes, the install kernel could be broken into a two disk
set. The reason it hasn't been done is that a.) SCSI floppies are
extremely rare. b.) The only DECstation machines which came with Built-in
floppies, can't boot off them (go figure).

> floppies?  Is there a problem booting a DECstation 3100 or a DECstation
> 5000/200 off of a CD-ROM?  Thank you.

	Theoretically no, as long as you have either a.) a DEC CDROM
drive or b.) a CD-ROM which supports 512 byte-block mode.



	Chris