Hi Havard!

  HE> While the zip disks can help with the installation,
    > there's a chance that the SCSI controller doesn't have
    > BIOS support, and you will thus be unable to boot from
    > it.  This means that you may need a floppy drive to
    > boot the machine.

You're right, the firmware knows nothing about the SCSI host
adaptor and the adaptor doesn't contain a boot ROM.  I would
need something the firmware recognised as bootable.

Regards,
  - Andy.