running Ultrix on orphan VAXstation 2000

[Steve McConnel]

We have a small VAX setup here (3500, 3600, VAXstation 2000), running VMS
on an ethernet VAXcluster on all three CPU's.  It's possible that the
department which runs the VAXen would let me bring up Ultrix on the
VAXstation, since it's not used much, and then only as a CPU, not as
a workstation.  The problem is that there's no tape drive attached to
the VAXstation -- only the disk drive and the ethernet connection.

My question is, would it be possible to bring up Ultrix on the VAXstation
given this braindead configuration?  (Currently, the VAXstation has to boot
even VMS over the ethernet.)  If it is, could we somehow use the tape drives
on the VMS VAXen for some form of backup?

Please email your responses, as this question is rather unlikely to be
of wide interest.
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