From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 15 10:34:11 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 376FF16A41F for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:34:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wigry@uninet.ee) Received: from mail.neti.ee (mail.neti.ee [194.126.101.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DD5343D46 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:34:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wigry@uninet.ee) Message-ID: <43294E30.9020008@uninet.ee> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:34:24 +0300 From: Rein Kadastik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org References: <43294C9D.9000001@uninet.ee> In-Reply-To: <43294C9D.9000001@uninet.ee> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) (Debian) at neti.ee Cc: Subject: Re: Problem at first boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:34:11 -0000 BTW the reason of the booting problem is that kernel mounts / partition and expects to find /bin/sh from there but as the /bin is on separate partiton, then it fails. -- Rein Rein Kadastik wrote: > Your partitioning is not correct. There is no point to put /bin and > /etc on their own partitions as they take very small amount of room. > > I recommend to make another clean install and select Auto option when > creating slices > > Usually separate partitions are recommended for the followind folders: > /, /tmp, /usr, /var, /home and swap > > The purpose of separate partitions are that if one partition gets full > then other partitoons have still room and the system can still run. > For example if the user downloads files to the home directory, then > only /home partition can be filled up but /, /usr, /var and /tmp > partitions would still have some room and the system can function > correctly. If there would be only one big / partition (totally legal > and possible to have) then the user could fill that partiton up and > system does not have room for logging and storing temporary files > which might introduce unexpected behaviour. > > Hope this explains the reason of the partitoning (Actually slicing in > FreeBSD as there is only one partition containing all the slices) and > therefore you can figure out the layout by yourself. > > -- Rein > > Julien FOURNIER wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm a new FreeBsd (French) user, and after 3 days of none-working >> installs, I, now can boot my server with FreeBSD installed on it. >> The problem is : it ask me to enter the path for the Shell, and I don't >> know where it is. Here is the message I get when I attempt to boot : >> >> "Can't exec /bin/sh fot /etc/rc : No such File or directory. >> Enter full path of Shell or type Enter for /bin/sh" >> >> If I type Enter, the system tells me that the file can't be found...I >> don't know how to do!!! >> >> I have installed the system as following : Standard installation >> >> * / =>1GB >> * /etc =>1GB >> * /bin =>1GB >> * /dev =>1GB >> * swap partition =>2GB >> * /var =>6GB >> >> Install with "FTP passive" >> >> This server is going to be a proxy server with vpn/ssl solution. >> >> Did I make an error while installing, or is there a simple solution to >> solve my (very very !!!) big problem?? >> >> Thanks a lot... >> >> ---------- >> Julien Fournier >> jfournier@gse.fr >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >