Topic: Can not even setup e-smith

[Colin]

After I type in proceed in the setup of e-smith the computer says initializing cd-rom then goes to a blue screen saying welcome to e-smith server and gateway and stays stuck there. The cd rom goes dead( I can not open it up) and I have tried another cd rom and the same thing happens. If anyone else has had this problem please tell me what the solution to it was. Thank You.

[Colin Mattoon]

Geez, another guy who got teased in school!!!

But to the problem at hand, I never encountered this with e-smith but I have had a very similar problem with RedHat. It was caused by a dirty cd -- I cleaned it and the problem went away. Maybe that's what happened here. Aside from that, I would advise a look at the following:

1. bios settings

2. physical ram (maybe you have some flakey ram -- Linux can be     particular)

3. processor and clock settings.

Another Colin

[Anton Pirnat]

here i,ve tried the 4b7 of e-smith distribution and got similar probs at first.  I got  "file not found"´s and other messages, tried a new CD (but never a new disk. shame on me) and distribution v3.01 also.. w/o any changes..

After all... i found out it was caused by a damaged floppy disc (some less defective sectory only, but enough to make me angry about). After using a brand new one i did install all with success.

Anton Pirnat