MicroVax II/VMS - why 70mb isn't enough.

For all those that asked - I was trying to install VMS 7.2. Obviously, an older version would have had a better time fitting, but this is the only version we had available. I was just realliy suprised that the installer claimed that it would fit with 10000 blocks to spare, and then promptly ran out of space. It makes sense - VMS pages to a file on the disk, and any unpacking routine would use disk, but, oh well. Live and learn. I did some digging here and found a 300 mb ESDI disk. I have no idea if it works or not, I'll give it a shot as soon as I have a chance. With regards to booting - has anyone used mopd on Linux to install VMS? I am wondering if it's possible to build up a Linux box to act as an InfoServer (I don't have one, Sridhar does).