Ian Johannesen <ian@advice.dk> writes: > Well can't I just deactivate the use of the root disk under installation? You can, but you can´t. You can change the medium used. If you have another system, you can partition the harddrive for the alpha and install root.bin onto a small partition (e.g. what shall be swap later) and use that as root device with "root=/dev/sdaX". May the Source be with you. Goswin