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Date:      Tue, 01 Jun 1999 12:31:21 +0200
From:      Thierry Herbelot <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr>
To:        Laurent Kloeble <lkloeble@magic.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: installation problems
Message-ID:  <3753B679.573ED42F@telspace.alcatel.fr>
References:  <000b01beac15$6d8b77e0$db819ac3@oemcomputer>

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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.
> 
>
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