Topic: SME Server / E-Smith on a 486...

[Coldnorth]

...I've been searching this out for about 5 days now...  Basically, I've set up 5.5 on a 486 wwith 20 megs of ram, and it won't even load the server manager for me.  It makes me want to throw it out the window - which I probably should.  I'm trying to put together a demo box so I can show my boss that we don't have to suffer through our current small-enterprise dialup crap IT situation anymore...

Anyways, I don't care how far back I have to go - is there a distro of SME / E-Smith that will live on a 486 decently without crying like a little girl?

Thanks.

[Ray Mitchell]

Try 4.1.2, I had it running on a 486 66MHz box with 16Mb RAM.
It was slow but it worked.

Regs
Ray

[Coldnorth]

Thanks, Ray.  That was what I figured.  Now I just have to find it. (rsync, hopefully )

Cheers!

Jonathan

[Arno]

Anyone know were i can download SME
4.1.2

[Dean]

Try:

http://public.ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/e-smith/releases/4.1.2/iso/

Dean

[Nathan Fowler]

Be sure to apply the errata packages for RH6.2/RH7.0 to 4.1.2, that ISO is very old and insecure.  You'll want to concenrate on the RH6.2 errata and supplement it with the RH7.0 errata packages.

[steve]

You also might want to reconsider showing this to your boss on a little old 486
you are trying to get him to dump a slow dialup connection, how is it going to go over when you go to show him the server manager and it takes over a minute to load?
try to get a pII 400 or so, the server manager will be very snappy and responsive, heck i had mine on a p200 and it took 30 seconds to a minute to load the server manager, on my pII 400, takes about 5 seconds.
maybe you have a computer you can just throw a empty hard drive into and install SME to do the presentation?

good luck

steve

[jimbo]

www.cosuk.com

you can pick up some good cheap second hand pc's.

[Klaus Eckert]

if you don't want that your presentation fails,
forget the 486, it will be tooooo slow.
also forget SME4.1.2, it is very insecure.

better use a PII-400 and SME 5.6.
remember to use a quick harddisk (with cache) and minimum 256 MB RAM.

cheers klaus

[Coldnorth]

Thanks for everyone's help.  I'm going to try to find a faster PC, but if not I think I'll use my everyday Windows box P1 133 with 32 megs of ram to run the demo, since it's WAY faster.

...As I had said, server-manager won't load...  I guess I should have also asked this:
It loads the main window (right frame), but has a DNS error on the navigation frame.  I was able to access it through admin on the box itself, à la text-mode-noframes...  Is there any reason it wouldn't load the navigation frame - or anything I might be able to fix?

...I only ask because I'm halfway through the 23-hour download of 4.1.2 on my 64kbit cable modem, and I want something to do until tomorrow.

Thanks again!

Jonathan

[ryan]

Coldnorth,

486???  I have thrown away MANY functioning systems between 133 and 200mhz.  I find that 300mhz is necessary to be pratical these days (and keep my sanity).  I have an AMD K6-2 300 chip I will send to your for free if you want it...you need a super socket 7 board that works with the K6.   It includes the heat sink and fan, but the fan is old, so you might consider a buying a new fan.  If your interested, reply in forum and I will send you an email for your mailing address.  


ryan