Re: Boot question

Subject: Re: Boot question
goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de
Date: Tue Oct 05 1999 - 11:56:12 PDT

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Ian Johannesen <ian@advice.dk> writes:

> Well can't I just deactivate the use of the root disk under installation?

You can, but you canīt.

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

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