> > 
> > I recently got a MicroVax II, unfortunately with no hard drives. It does
> > have a tape drive and a double RX50 (400 KB) drive, as well as a DECQNA
> > Ethernet card.
> > 
> > I'd like to run this machine off the network. Unfortunately, it is
> > apparently not possible to network boot this machine (unlike VS2000s)...
> > so I figure that a good approach may be to initially boot off a floppy.
> 
> I have no idea whre you got that idea from.  The DEC LPS40 printserver is a 
> diskless MicrovaxII in a ba23 and boots via eithernet.  I used to work with 
> a LAVC (loacal area vax cluster)  of 4 MVIIs with deqnas and a 750 as a boot 
> engine.  Ran 2 doesn users well under vms 5.2.
> 
The MVII can netboot, yes, but it cannot netboot NetBSD yet. So, you
need another way to install NetBSD on it.

-- Ragge