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i am planning on getting a tp755ce, for research work. it comes with dos and windows (3.11), which i will use for wordprocessing, sas, and a few other programs not otherwise available. i would like to add windows NT 3.5 to eventually port a silicon graphics program to opengl using NT, and i would also like to add linux for all the unix tools and for plugging into an ethernet connection at work (e.g. for backups to our silo drive). as i have to take my research environment with me when i visit colleagues for collaborative work, i would like to get also the NEC multispin 3x-p (portable) cd-rom drive. question(s) #1: is it feasible to use a scsi pcmcia card via windows 3.11 to access the cd-rom drive (i asssume there is a driver), including what comes with the NT cd-roms (as i understand it, NT does not support pcmcia cards)? if so, recommended scsi pcmcia cards? would i lose any functionality compared to, say, a non-notebook pc with an internal or external cd-rom drive? (would it be better to try to find some parallel scsi adapter that NT might support?) question(s) #2: any thoughts, wisdom regarding setting up multiple operating systems on a notebook hard disk? any experience with the combination above? e.g., what kind of file system would work, be best? thanks in advance for any suggestions. regards, al Alden S. Klovdahl / alden.klovdahl@anu.edu.au / fax: +61 62 49 05 25 Sociology, Arts / Australian National University / Canberra ACT Australia 0200