Hi,
Was a long time user and supporter of SME Server but "the troubles" pushed me over to Nethserver 7, which was OK but is now well EOL. Netherserver 8 doesn't tick a number of boxes, it's not really a simple server/gateway.
Saw that SME Server 11.0b1 has recently being released so gave it a try. Unfortunately the install fell over at the line "autopart --lvm --nohome" in ks.cfg with invalid argument --lvm. This section of code only gets run if no suitable drives are found in the output of lsblk, so is not likely to be run in the normal scheme of things.
Digging around the argument should be --type=lvm. I jumped through the hoops to edit the read-only ks.cfg file and also learn't a lot about making bootable ISO's...
Installation now runs and I can set keyboard, language time etc but for some reason lsblk is still not reporting any useable drives, there are none to select on the partitioning page. Note I'm trying to install on pretty old hardware, aka 10 years or more, so not overly surprised there are problems. EFI what's that? X86-64 greater than 1, naw...
I've decided that newer hardware is required so getting that up and running and live has priority. I might have look later, other OS's and sever/gateway installs do see the drives. And yes I know "report bugs in the bug tracker", well I would but my login doesn't work over there and it's not a complex bug...
Heres to SME Server 11.0 becoming a release that is a easy to maintain, use and tweak, as SME 7 (I think!) was. I'll certainly be looking at SME 11 and could well come back in from the cold...
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Cheers
Dave.