Topic: Problem with installation of SME 6.0

[ekhaat]

Hi

I downloaded "smeserver-6.0unsupported.iso", burned it onto a CD, ran the installation, and half way through it says:

Could not open readline-4.2a-4.i386.rpm

and something about a missing or corrupted rpm.

Only thing I was able to do was to cut the power.

This happened with two different CD's.

I have checked the checksum with md5sum.exe, its identical to the checksum on the download site.

I have successfully copied the mentioned file to the harddrive of my win98 box, no problem reading from the CD.

Any one else had this problem?

Is the installation program faulty?

Should I download another 6.x version?

Any help much appreciated.

Cheers
Iwer Mørck
DK

[wyron]

This definitely sounds like a faulty burning process to me.
Did you set the burning session to verify after burning ?
If both copies are from the same CD-R package I'd suspect the quality of your CD-R's. Try with another (and perhaps better) brand.
Lots of bad quality CD-R's are on the loose in DK, especially after people began to go to Germany for them.

[ekhaat]

This definitely sounds like a faulty burning process to me.
Did you set the burning session to verify after burning ?
If both copies are from the same CD-R package I'd suspect the quality of your CD-R's. Try with another (and perhaps better) brand.
Lots of bad quality CD-R's are on the loose in DK, especially after people began to go to Germany for them.

I didn't verify the burning. I don't know if Easy CD Creator supports that, I couln't find it, anyway.

But as I stated, the checksum is OK and I had no problem copying the file.

One CD is a TITAN 40X 700MB
the otherone is a FUJIFILM 52x 700MB

Actualy I have a third CD, which fails at anaconda loading right at startup.

I don't actually know, where the CD's are bought, one is from a mate, and one is from a birthday present.

Thanks anyway. I hope someone can cast som light on this.

Cheers
Iwer Mørck
DK

[Jáder]

When burning CD you not must burn the iso file.
It´s a different option of normal burn!
When you open your CD , you must see SEVERAL files and not just  a .iso file!

BEFORE THIS
Just be sure your CD is OK and can boot on other computer!

After be sure...try to do "FDISK /MBR"
after boot from Win98 disk/CD

So he never will boot with old OS!

[Jáder]

ops... wrong question for the answer...
So here we go...

I had some problems with a otherwise working CDROM drive! It just do not like to install SME... I don´t know why, but change it solve my problem!

I also had problems with ACPI turned on. Maybe you can try disable it on BIOS!

Good luck!

[ekhaat]

ops... wrong question for the answer...
So here we go...

I had some problems with a otherwise working CDROM drive! It just do not like to install SME... I don´t know why, but change it solve my problem!

I also had problems with ACPI turned on. Maybe you can try disable it on BIOS!

Good luck!

Well, I have no problems installing SME 5.5

But I might try your suggestion.

Thanks and Cheers
Iwer Mørck
DK

[wyron]

There are three factors here, all capable of causing the f...-up.
Your CD-R's seem to be of adequate quality, so lets discard them for now.
Your burner then, is that a relatively new burner (I have had two consecutive HP-burners go bad on me within a fortnight after warranty expiration. I'll never buy HP again) ?
The CD-drive in your SME-server-to-be? If it is fairly old I have read somwhere that you can help it by reducing the speed with which you burn the ISO-image. Otherwise they are fairly cheap just now, even in DK (for instance you can try http://www.shg.dk).

Good luck !!

[Jáder]

I had problems with doing upgrade to 5.6 (not 6) with ACPI. It´s a kernel issue.
After disable ACPI I can install it.

I don´t remember for sure... but I think I had to disable USB also!

[axcairns2]

There are three factors here, all capable of causing the f...-up.
Your CD-R's seem to be of adequate quality, so lets discard them for now.
Your burner then, is that a relatively new burner (I have had two consecutive HP-burners go bad on me within a fortnight after warranty expiration. I'll never buy HP again) ?
The CD-drive in your SME-server-to-be? If it is fairly old I have read somwhere that you can help it by reducing the speed with which you burn the ISO-image. Otherwise they are fairly cheap just now, even in DK (for instance you can try http://www.shg.dk).

Good luck !!

Turns out it was the cd-rom drive in my server to be. It was an old 8x4x32. When I moved another drive into the machine everything went swimmingly.

Of course  in getting to this conclusion I burned 3 coasters and tried both versions 5.6 and 6.0. Interesting that the same error should occur at the same point on 3 cd's and two versions.

Is this perhaps something that should be analysed by those more technical than myself? Given that SME Server is (in part) targetted at old hardware (Celeron 400 here), the incidence of old cd-rom's causing trouble may be more than you think. Damn near had me walking away before I'd even got started.

Cheers,

Allan