On May 25, Benjamin Gerfelder wrote
> System: AcerNote 730i, 4 Mb RAM, 125 Mb diskspace
> 
> the kernel seems to boot correctly, but when it is supposed to display the
> graphical interface, it displays this strange message:
> 
> ...
> root on md0a dumps on md0b
> root file system type: ffs
> erase ^?, werase ^W, kill ^U, intr ^C
> 
> then it hangs :(
> 

Sounds like you're out of memory. Did you try the 'boot-small.fs' floppy ?
If this still doesn't work, a then cutted-down install floppy is needed.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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