Multia's...

Well, I finally have a true DEC bit of hardware in the form of a old DEC Multia VX40. (166Mhz Alpha, 64MB RAM, 3.5" floppy, 1GB SCSI) (Its almost properly on-topic from the dates I could find.) I've cleaned out the dust/cigarette smoke, and bought myself a little SCSI1->SCSI2 adapter so I can get the SCSI external. (As well as another 32Mb of memory while I was at it. - it was cheap - and there were empty SIMM slots) The original 1GB IBM SCSI drive appears to have been the victim of true sticktation. The drive started spinning after I whapped it a few times, so I don't trust it. I've got an 18G (Sun) external disk, and CD-ROM I can plug into it, and the intention is to install OpenVMS Alpha 7.3-1 on the thing. Anyone have an non-obvious words of wisdom before I start installing VMS onto it? (I gather getting VMS on a Multia isn't officially supported, and a bit of a trick. ) Thanks, David