I am alive! I unplugged it all. Flicked all the switches and changed the trasceiver. It said something about the SQE being off for connection to a dte and on for a repeating. So i turned it on, and its all going!! Now DECnet, but first sleep :) Regards, Daniel. Sent from my iPad On 5 Oct 2013, at 8:35 pm, "Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-" <system at TMESIS.COM> wrote: Daniel Soderstrom <snaggs at mac.com> writes: The error is; Please mount volume ESP_DATA in device _ESP1$DKA200: Can't mount a device that doesn't exists! The problem with copying is that atm, the machine is an island unto itself a= nd I've nowhere to copy it to. I wanted to get IP up so I could ftp it out. If I get that far, do you guys have a copy of 6.2 and RDB etc that I can ins= tall from? i wanted dont want to weigh the Vaxstation down with the extra li= nes of code in the current version. I've got a RX3200 for that. I even thoug= ht of putting on 5.5 Look through the system startup for a MOUNT command that would attempt to mount DKA200 with label ESP_DATA. $ SEARCH SYS$STARTUP:*.COM ESP_DATA When you find that, edit the procedure and comment out the MOUNT. -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.