Booting a VAXstation

I have a VAXstation 3100 model 38 I bought on eBay for the princely sum of ?0.99. Sadly it came without disks and I have no wide-SCSI disks of <1GB. But I want to get it working & looking at the old dead kit pile. As far as I know you can't boot a traditional VAX from a disk of <1GB... but could I put the core of VMS on a small slow narrow SCSI disk, like an 80MB or something, and put most of it on the only Wide SCSI disk I have, a 10GB...? I was considering either attaching an external SCSI2 disk of 80-120GB, or possibly trying to fit one internally if I can find an appropriate convertor. I have a fast/wide 8GB or 10GB disk I could use for main storage, but I don't think I can boot from it... Can I? My VMS knowledge is /very/ rusty & I was only ever a sysadmin, not a developer. I've never brought up a bare system or anything. Also, I have several external SCSI CD-ROMs, including 2 Apple units. I seem to recall that VAXen want a weird block size, same as Sun kit... is that correct? How would one tell if a certain drive could do this or not? Is it a DIP switch setting or just a SCSI bus command? -- Liam Proven ? Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lproven at gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884 ? Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven ? LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? ICQ: 73187508