Topic: 7.0 Alpha 4 is trying to tell me something ...

[MSmith]

Installed on an emachines T1840, Celeron processor, 384 megs DDR RAM, Intel 845GL chipset.

http://www.compgeek.com/details.asp?invtId=T1840

Got a kernel panic after reboot; now the Caps Lock & Scroll Lock look to be blinking Morse code at me!  If it'd be helpful I'll try to record it as dots & dashes.  Anything else useful, crash-info-wise, I can recover from the machine?

I should note that this machine is a bit suspect; next reboot I'll do a RAM check and a bit of CPU stresstesting, but I've successfully installed SuSE 9.2 and Mepis 3.3 on it.

[chris burnat]

just installed alpha4 on a pretty average box, no such problems.  Hope it helps... Rgds. chris.

[MSmith]

Looks as though the RAM in this box is no better than it absolutely has to be ... I tried using the most conservative memory settings possible and SME finished booting and seems to be running OK.  The same memory settings ran MEPIS and Xandros just fine, but I reckon CentOS stresses the memory more.

[gbaird]

I have been running sme 7.0A4 2 days on

p3 1000 256 megs pc100 memory just fine

however no ftp access to server

[chris burnat]

however no ftp access to server

check http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=26677.0