From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 1 3:35:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 757711529C for ; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 03:35:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id LAA26874; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 11:33:01 +0200 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id MAA03247; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 12:30:27 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA10936; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 12:21:31 +0200 (MEST) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1 (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id MAA24349; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 12:25:37 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <3753B679.573ED42F@telspace.alcatel.fr> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 12:31:21 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot Reply-To: thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr Organization: Alcatel CIT Nanterre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Laurent Kloeble Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation problems References: <000b01beac15$6d8b77e0$db819ac3@oemcomputer> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------F991D50792022DBC7AC80D37" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------F991D50792022DBC7AC80D37 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bonjour, 1) you should not post in HTML : some mail readers don't understand it > Laurent Kloeble wrote: > > Hello again ! > > I made the following partition (with 572MB for the beginning) : > > / 90MB > swap 100MB > /usr 100MB > /var 282MB 2) where do these sizes come from ? usually, the sizes are like : / 40 MB swap 2*your physical RAM /var 20 MB /usr all the rest > > (all are file system except the second who is swap). > > I choose minimum Installation (choice number 6 if I remember). > > All was until this line : > > 5776384 bytes read from bin dist, chunk 25 of 102@ 940.2 Kb/sec 3) where are you loading from (FTP site, diskettes, CDROM, DOS hard disk) ? > > And then came the following message : > > "Can't find a kernel image to link to on the root file system ! you're > going to have a hard time getting this system to boot from the hard > disk, I'm afraid." > > I can boot BSD, do some command as ls or help, but I think I missed 4) I don't know the "help" command ? can you send the reult of dmesg and uname -a ? > something. Can you tell me What ?. > > Thank you. > > --------------F991D50792022DBC7AC80D37 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="thierry.herbelot.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Thierry Herbelot Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="thierry.herbelot.vcf" begin:vcard n:Herbelot;Thierry tel;work:(+33) 1 46 52 47 23 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://perso.cybercable.fr/herbelot org:CIT Nanterre adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr x-mozilla-cpt:;-22032 fn:Thierry Herbelot end:vcard --------------F991D50792022DBC7AC80D37-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message