Topic: Hardware Compatibility

[persisto]

I tried installing 7.0b5 on a Compaq Deskpro EN 6350/6, (PII 350 mHz), and got a message: "You are trying to install on a machine which isn't supported by this release of SME Server" (V6.0 runs fine.)
What are hardware requirements for V7.0?

Thanks

[raem]

persisto

These links may help:

http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewforum.php?forum=29

http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/rhel-ig-x8664-multi-en-4/s1-steps-hardware.html

"Hardware compatibility is particularly important if you have an older system or a system that you built yourself. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 should be compatible with most hardware in systems that were factory built within the last two years. However, hardware specifications change almost daily, so it is difficult to guarantee that your hardware is 100% compatible."

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/hwcert/list.cgi?component=Red%20Hat%20Enterprise%
20Linux&version=4&bug_status=COMPATIBLE&showall=1

[CharlieBrady]

I tried installing 7.0b5 on a Compaq Deskpro EN 6350/6, (PII 350 mHz), and got a message: "You are trying to install on a machine which isn't supported by this release of SME Server" (V6.0 runs fine.)

Hmmm, that means that only the i386 kernel was selected by the installer. For a PII, it should have been i686.

As you've been asked multiple times elsewhere, please report anything with doesn't work correctly in 7.0beta to the bug tracker at http://smeserver.sourceforge.net/.

[persisto]

Charlie,

I will not report this as a bug as, with my limited knowledge of Linux, but good understanding of English, I have absolutely no reason to believe that the message

"You are trying to install on a machine which isn't supported by this release of SME Server"

is a bug or anomaly or indicates that something does "not work correctly" (We're talking PII !)

If you have a different understanding of the problem/message, please feel free to take it further.
If I am given any reason to believe that V7.0b should work on a PII I'll be happy to try it out and in that case will report on  http://smeserver.sourceforge.net/.

[raem]

persisto

> If I am given any reason to believe that V7.0b
> should work on a PII I'll be happy to try it out
> and in that case will report on  
> http://smeserver.sourceforge.net/

I think Charlie gave you every reason to believe so when he said
"Hmmm, that means that only the i386 kernel was selected by the installer. For a PII, it should have been i686."

Please post a bug as suggested and that will help the rest of us who still have & need to keep PII's working.

[persisto]

OK Done,

[persisto]

I got this as answer on my SourceForg post.

>Comment By: (gordonr)

Date: 2005-10-31 21:47

Message:
Logged In: YES
user_id=

I believe you need the i386 kernel for that CPU, and i386 CPUs are not supported by CentOS. Sorry.

I guess that's that. (Issue has been been closed on SF)

[CharlieBrady]

I got this as answer on my SourceForg post.

>Comment By: (gordonr)

Date: 2005-10-31 21:47

Message:
Logged In: YES
user_id=

I believe you need the i386 kernel for that CPU, and i386 CPUs are not supported by CentOS. Sorry.

I guess that's that. (Issue has been been closed on SF)

I think that Gordon made a mistake. The PII should be using the i686 kernel (I earlier said i586, but that is also wrong), which is provided. I'm curious to know why it isn't being used. I've re-opened the bug.

[persisto]

This looks like an issue after all:
I found that "uname -a" would give me info on the version installed.
This is from  SME 6.5rc, on the same machine as v7.0b5 gives the message:

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[root@myserver]# uname -a
Linux myserver 2.4.20-37.7.legacy #1 Mon Sep 27 21:50:48 EDT 2004 i686 unknown


If some-one tells me where to get CentOS 4.1, I'll be happy to try that, if that is useful.

[raem]

persisto

> If some-one tells me where to get CentOS 4.1...

http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=13

[persisto]

Install OK after clean download/burn.

Sorry abt that, but I was very reluctant to report it as a bug anyway.
Surprising that a faulty CD, can still give a plausible response (plausible, if u don't know hardware)