Topic: SME Downloads

[tandum]

Hi, long time SME user, first time forum talker.

I clicked the sme 7b4 download link tonight and it's now just over half way but soooo slow(17.5Kbs just now.)

Is there a mirror or torrent for this download to get the load off contribs.org? Both CentOS and Fedora have torrents and their DVD's come in quick.

Robin.

[CharlieBrady]

Is there a mirror or torrent for this download to get the load off contribs.org?

Yes, there are mirrors, for example:

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/7/iso/

Both CentOS and Fedora have torrents and their DVD's come in quick.

Both CentOS and Fedora are much bigger projects, with more people and organisations contributing.

[tandum]

Cheers Charlie,
I normally pull the iso's from planet mirror but they have been showing a22 as the latest for months now. This b4 is miles away from that release.

I notice that b4 install crashes when installing to a machine with an internal usb card reader installed. CentOS 4 doesn't do that on the same machine. I was wondering how to get a dump of the error message it asks me to report when all the disks in the machine are unformatted Unplugging the card reader fixes the problem but the error messages point at a /dev/sd error which could confuse people.

I'm also building a dual opteron system for a client soon, based on the Tyan K8SD mobo. It has an onboard adaptec U320 SCSI chip plus 3 lan ports. Dying to throw beta 4 at it to see what happens All the hardware is ordered but I believe the 15K scsi disks will take some time to arrive. Not exactly a shelf item.

[CharlieBrady]

I notice that b4 install crashes when installing to a machine with an internal usb card reader installed.

As has been said many, many, many times now, please report anything which doesn't work perfectly to the bug tracker at http://smeserver.sourceforge.net/.

[gordonr]

Cheers Charlie,
I normally pull the iso's from planet mirror but they have been showing a22 as the latest for months now. This b4 is miles away from that release.

You are looking in the old 'e-smith' tree. Try here:

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/7/iso/

It is also available for rsync in the 'smeserver' module.

[tandum]

Thanks gordon,
Not only did those files whip in at top speed but it was also a newer beta (b5).

It installed perfectly on that twin opteron system which  I've just built. It see's every piece of hardware from the twin 15K scsi drives right down to the external USB backup disk and the dual 1gig onboard lan ports. I thought I'd be forced to try and compile one driver at least.

This CentOS(Redhat) 4.1 linux version could very well make me a linux fan again!

I see adding users gives an error in B5. Yes Charlie, I know.