Topic: unable to install SME-server 6.0 unsupported

[ribot]

Hello

I have been trying for hours to install SME-server 6.0 unsupported.

First I downloaded the .iso and booted from CD. The installer started, and I answered what language and keyboard I want. Then the installer said that it cannot find the installation CD (even that this is what it booted from).

So I decided to copy the .iso to my hard drive (c:). But now the CD couldn't boot any more. I burnt two new copies, but none of them could be read. I thought my CD reader must be corrupt, because it can't read burnt CDs well. I was wrong, one of my CDs was a rw, which I burnt a DOS Boot disk on after, and this worked.

So now I tried to make my own floppys to install. First boot.img, which I made with rawrite.exe that is on the sme-server cd (which I couldnt read from cd, I had to copy these files to my DOS Boot disk). I made the image on a formatted floppy. Then upon install, I directed it to install from the .iso image that is on my c: hard drive. After a few seconds it gives me this "exception":

Traceback (innermost last):
File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 634, in ? intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData) ...

(it's a long message, i can write it all if it is really necessary)

It told me to do the checksum. I did the checksum, it was correct.

I also tried the netboot floppy (which I made the same way as the boot.img using netboot.img instead). It wanted the drivers which I copied to a floppy. I'm not sure how the installer wants the drivers, it couldn't handle a tar.gz or an uncompiled set of files which was in the archive. (you have to do makefile for the drivers to work, that is what the driver text file for linux drivers says.).

I want to install this OS, please, what can I do?

system:

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Intel Pentium 200 mmx
160 MB RAM
ACORP-5TX32 VER.B (mb)
Tseng Labs ET6000/ET6100 PCI (gfx)
D-Link DFE-530TX PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter (rev. C)
SAMSUnG SCR-2030 JS102 (CD-ROM)
LG StudioWorks 76i (display)

Creative AWE64 16-bit Audio
Voodoo Graphics 3D Accelerator


(ps. I wonder how it can be possible that my cd-rom can't read the files on the sme-server installation CD. It worked maybe 1/30 tries, on all 3 copies I made, in DOS, or when trying to boot from them. In windows they usually worked. It can't be that the CDs are bad quality or corrupt, and the checksum is correct.)

[arne]

It sounds like there might be an error in the CD image you have just made. One other alternative is that it might be something with the CD rom.

I would first try to burn a new cd eventually to do a new download. Then I would try to borrow one CD player from another pc.

The pc you are using should be ok for the sme server when it comes to ram and processor etc. I have at leased runned sme 5.6 at a petium 166.

When everything is working OK it use to be an easy task to install the SME server. Think it is a good idea to first troubleshoot why it loose the contact with the cd rom. A corrupt cd rom migh be a guess.

[ribot]

well I assume the CD drive is malfunctioning. I do not have another one to try.

I will have to try the netboot floppy, however it doesn't recognize my NIC. I have the drivers on CD, which I can copy to floppy. I have copied both the linux drivers and the packet drivers to a floppy, but the netboot installer says the floppy is not a valid driver disk for this release of SME Server.

How do I make a valid driver disk? The CD contains drivers for several OS...