Topic: e-smith 4.1.1 iso image

[sander]

Where can i obtain e-smith 4.1.1? I think i have dameged my cd-rom.
I see everywhere e-smith 4.1.2 and but nothing else.

I want e-smith 4.1.1 because the seems to be fewer bugs in it than in 4.1.2.

Plese help me as soon as possible because i cant install e-smith. my server is DOWN.

Sander

[David]

Get it from:
http://www.planetmirror.com/pub/e-smith/releases/4.1.1/iso/

I really think that 4.1.2 is fine; however. What is your actual problem?

[sander]

I thought that I’d format e-smith box and install it with software raid mirroring as I have three identical 2GB SCSI drives. But the server says during install cannot transfer install image to hard drive. And at a later message it tells me that you have probably run out of disk space. (witch is unlikely because i have 6 GB total HDD) have tried to install e-smith by formatting HDD-s to fat32, linux native, no system, raid. I made all these partitions in RH 7.0 but nothing helps. Finally I tried to install regular, but the same message arrives but in a later phase.

I also cleaned my cd-rom drives lenses.
But I think the problem is with bios (witch is from 1995)
The computer I install it to is:
HP Netserver 5/133 LH
With 32 MB of RAM
3* 2GB SCSI HDD
Toshiba SCSI CD-rom
HP SureStore 6000 Tape device

Sander

[Kees Blokland]

Hi Sander,

I don't know the netserver hardware, but my first question would be, does the box have a hardware raidcontroller, that reports a single drive, or do you see 3 drives when booting ?

Tell us what type of scsi controller the drives are connected to.
( my first guess would be an adaptec scsi controller.. but surprise me!)

also you write: ..raid mirroring ...

Mirror = 2 idential drives, one a copy of the other, total capacity is capacity of a single drive, the other being a backup....

If you want to use 6G  than install e-smith on the 1st 2G and add the other ones as drives for data. Search the achives for my name,  or have a look at
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/hd_add.html
for the general idea of adding harddisks to a system..

And why do you want to use 4.1.1 ? you can safely assume that 4.1.2 has fewer bugs. If you know better, than I'm sure the e-smith team would be delighted to hear about those bugs..

kees

[sander]

Well I have Adaptec AIC-7850 BIOS v1.19S6
(c) 1995 Adaptec Inc.

Also at bootup I see 3 SCSI hard drives+SCSI CD-ROM and SCSI TAPE

It aslo tells me that a drive larger than 1GB has been detected on the system. When an os is installed it usually disappears. i basically ignore the message.

Do you mean by install i take out the other 2 disks?
and add them when e-smith instllation is done? or what?

The system olso puts up a message when i want to install software raid that could not creat swap on md2!????

May the problem be in the bios date? I have a bios dating from 09/28/95.

For basic information the unit is about 6 years old.

For the bugs i read on the main page of e-smith.org that there is this bug and that bug. That kind of a bug list i did not find on the main page when 4.1.1 was the latest release. Perhaps I started using it too late when all the bugs had been fixed.

Sander

[Dan Brown]

Haven't we already been through this twice before?  If you want to use the full capacity of all three drives together (that is, a total of 6 GB) with e-smith, you need to use RAID 0, and you'll need a hardware RAID controller for that.  You don't have a hardware RAID controller, and RAID 0 gives you no fault tolerance.  If you wanted fault tolerance, you could set up a RAID 5 array (for a total of 4 GB), but that would again require a hardware RAID controller with e-smith.

OK, you _could_ use the three separate drives and mount them individually, but that would also require custom work, and wouldn't be supported by a standard installation.

If you want to use e-smith's RAID, you might as well remove one of the three drives.  e-smith should use the other two, mirrored.  That means that you'll only get the capacity of one drive, but if either drive fails, your data is still saved.

As to 4.1.1 vs. 4.1.2, most of the same bugs that have recently appeared in 4.1.2 are also present in 4.1.1--the billion second bug and the telnetd bug for sure, and if 4.1.1 included the webmail at all (I don't remember this), the webmail security hole is in 4.1.1 as well.