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I'm about to install Win2k on my brand new SCSI system, but I'm not sure how botting from the CDD will work. Based on what I've read, I'm probably going to give the CDD SCSI ID 5, leaving room for a bruner on ID6 with my X15 on ID0. (Let me know if this logic is wrong.) To boot from the SCSI CD, I assume that I can just change the boot device in the SCSI BIOS to ID5, correct? My question is won't Win2k need the drivers for my 19160 SCSI card before it can run setup off the CDD? But how do I get into setup if it doesn't have the drivers? I'm going to do some research now, but any tips/pointers are appreciated. Thanks!

There shouldn't be a problem.
The ID->boot device doesn't matter, the SCSI adapter should support CDROM as bootable device right out of the box.
Just leave the setup as is, the X15 as boot device under ID0, any other ID for any other SCSI peripheral (1-6, 7 is always the SCSI adapter).
No need to change the boot device from ID0 to your CDROM.

Just reboot your system with the Win2k CD inserted in any CD drive, your SCSI BIOS should do the usual bus scan and detect a bootable CD. Now pay attention, next should come a message like "to boot from CD hit a key" or alike with a 10 sec. countdown. Just hit enter or any other key to start the Win2k setup from CD.

The Win2k setup routine starts with the textbased routine, it'll show right at the beginning "hit F6 to install additional RAID/storage device drivers", hit F6 and put your Adaptec drivers disk into the floppy drive and follow the screenprompts to load the driver from disk.

I just ordered my second X15 last night , the newest, fastest X15-L36 (vs my 1.5 yr old X15) so I'll probably then ghost my current HDD stuff to the new one to use as my main boot drive and use the second one for spare stuff like games, pics, etc. 36gigs combined is plenty for me.