Topic: SME 6.0.1-01 Custom ISO

[ajkeane]

I will look at including it in the next release. Thanks for the feed back.

Tony

[NickR]

The test internet connection was removed when the new look was introduced. I do not know how to get it back as an option.

Tony

I believe it would have been removed due to the fact that it contacted Mitel to confirm internet access. It is quite easy to put it back by replacing the particular file involved when creating the iso. It's a feature that I used often and would have thought that it would have been preferable to modify it to contact a different server (contribs.org perhaps?) rather than remove it entirely.

It seems to have been removed from e-smith-base according to the changelog:

* Thu Dec 18 2003 contribs.org <bugs@contribs.org>

- [4.14.1-13]
- update console and removed testInternet.pl

[chris burnat]

How long is this iso going to be available, I cannot get to a decent download place for a day or two. Would like to get it, just what the doctor ordered...  Thanks.

[dexter]

Tony,

I have translated the SM and UM into Slovenian language. Are you interested in adding this files into the custom or next contribs.org distro?!?!

Cheers,

[cc_skavenger]

The ISO will be available.  It will not dissapear any time soon.  404 people have downloaded it so far, and I am sure more will.

[ajkeane]

Dextor

Let me know where to get the additional files and I will look at including them.

Tony

Marco

I would just like to express my thanks to you for hosting the ISO. There is no way that I could have sustained such a large number of downloads. Without you and your generosity none of this could have happened. This just shows what happens when a group of like minded people get together and create something needed by the community. The support has been wonderful.

Thank you

Tony

[John Lewis]

1) do you have a list of where you got all these additional packages?  And what versions are installed?

2) do you plan to have all the additional packages available in a yum repository, so updating them when updates are available is easy for the installed base?

3) can I use this iso to update a standard 6.0.1-01.iso?

Thanks

[ajkeane]

The list of all installed RPM's is available at

http://www.keane.co.nz/modules/mydownloads/

Along with a CD cover design.

The contribs are all available from contribs.org and I have found them over the last eight or so months and built up the ISO from my personal experience. I have not put together a directory of where I found them and do not see me doing so in the near future.

I do not have any plans to use Yum at this stage.

I would see no reason why you could not use the ISO to upgrade from a standard 6.01-01 install. I have not however done this so back up and do so at your own risk.

Tony

[wyron]

Hi, Tony!
As my contribution to the community I would gladly put an ibay at your disposal up to say 5 or 6 Gb (the limitation is backup tape capability) on my SME6.0.1-01.
My upload bandwidth is limited to a mere 256kbit, hovewer, so it should perhaps not be the primary choice.
On the other hand, if download possibilities are spread around the world, perhaps the load will not exceed reasonable limits, taking the timezones into consideration (as you may have seen I'm located in Europe).
If you're interested, just tell me how. Drop me a personal mail if you like.

[RonX]

I read about this nice ISO and are about to upgrade but the link doesn´t work. Anyone know if it is just now or if i´m to late?

RonX

[Boris]

Motivated by Tony’s effort to create a custom ISO and armed by excellent how-to by Darrell May, last week I’ve tried to create a custom ISO myself based first on Tony’s ISO and latter on “official” 6.0.1-01 image. I’ve included a couple of updates rpm’s and more add-ons in the extra folder since it was a plenty of space left on the CD.
It was soo easy (while following how-to) that I would encourage anyone who has a need for custom cdrom (install this server on the regular base) just to try to build it.
I’ve tested image first by installing from it to VMWare and after success burn it to CDR.
I’ve already install-tested it on the new servers over this weekend and happy with the results.
Just try it; you would be wondering why you didn’t do it before.

[greg]

Hi all,

I've added this location to download:
http://biopsychiat.com/sme/CustomSME/smeserver-6[1].01-01custom.iso

or

http://80.165.32.82/sme/CustomSME/smeserver-6[1].01-01custom.iso

Thanks to Tony.

Greg

PS: Boris is right - it's easy...

[dean]

Hello Tony, thanks for the sme custom iso.

I have a couple of questions, which I wouldn’t mind answering…

1.   Have you built a custom iso from sme 6.0.1 ? I’ve tried a couple of times but get a /etc/ks.cfg error

2.   What did you do differently from Darrells excellent howto to build your sme6 iso ? I can build from 5.6 no problems, but not 6

tia

Dean  

[BlueSky]

Boris, why don't you offer a copy of your custom ISO for download. I would definitely like to have it tested on my servers.

[Anonymous]

Ken
The version of backup2ws that I installed was the version released by Darrel with what I thought was the bug fix. As far as I know it is working O.K.
Tony

After seeing this I found Darrels website http://myezserver.com/phpBB2/ and sure enough was able to backtrack to the version 6 beta via those forums- trying to find it via contribs.org kept me lost as the main reference here is only to the 5.6 version.

Thanks, Ken