In the document sections 4, the partitions in the examples (Code Listing) are given as /dev/sdaa, /dev/sdab etc. Using livecd 2004.0 the correct entries are /dev/sda1 etc. even though the BSD disklabel has the a, b etc. partitions.
Can someone of the alpha-team check this out? If you need a victim, taviso should be your documentation contact :p
Created attachment 36200 [details, diff] Patch to fix device names in hb-install-alpha-disk.xml
*** Bug 58332 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixed in CVS. Thanks for the patch!