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Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: cc_skavenger on January 13, 2005, 03:47:35 PM: I have created a custom ISO using the 2.4.28 Kernel and have also included several contribs in the install process. I need feedback on any and all bugs as well as any suggestions for contribs to add into it. This ISO is considered BETA and was more to make the 2.4.28 kernel work with the existing software.

I have re-rolled the ppp & ppp-modules rpms for 2.4.28, but need to know if there are any other rpms that must be updated for this new kernel.

Here is the link:
http://ccskavenger.info/SME/iso/sme-6.0.1-02Custom/

TIA
Title: Custom Iso
Post by: eiceic on January 13, 2005, 06:00:02 PM: Is this Kernel any better at recognizing the SATA drives than the standard 6.0.1

Thanks,

Chris Buechler
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: cc_skavenger on January 13, 2005, 06:15:49 PM: It should be, I did build in whatever SATA that is supported by the stock kernel source. If you have a chance to test it out, please let me know. I do not have access to anything with SATA at the moment, so I am relying on others to test it....
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: Tib on January 14, 2005, 12:48:06 PM: Hello cc_skavenger,

I'll give it a go as well .. I have a test machine to try it out on.

Any chance to get the ISO put onto a mirror for faster downloads?

Regards,

Tib
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: cc_skavenger on January 14, 2005, 06:49:30 PM: I am open to anyone who wants to host it. I just doubled the speed that I had my web server bandwidth limited to.... Hope this makes it a little better.
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: Tib on January 15, 2005, 01:16:20 AM: Hello cc_skavenger

Thanks it must of helped as it's finnished downloading now.

I will commence loading on test server soon ... do you know of any addons so to speak that will not run with this version ... eg twiggi, twig, egroupware etc.

I guess I will test all those out as well ... problem solving is something I cannot help with though, I have no programing experience nor do I know too much about the guts of linux.

But for testing out the funtionality of most addons I can try and help with.

Regards,

Tib
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: gocdo on January 15, 2005, 02:18:33 AM: You beauty... Been waiting for a SATA based distribution for some time.

Just finished building a SATA based (raided 200GB WD SATA disks, Supermicro, P4 in a 1RU case) SME server and it is looking just fine. So far no problems. Install time under 4 minutes, has rebooted etc and 'is good'. Only hassle was the network support on this mainboard wasn't recognised.

Will post again after it has been hammered a bit. Will check the network issue as well.

Kevin
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: gocdo on January 15, 2005, 02:31:39 AM: Network issue - selected E1000 (last on the select list) and now on the network.

Now to hammer it... One happy user, thanks for this version.

regards
kevin
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: cc_skavenger on January 15, 2005, 05:59:11 AM: Kevin,
What type of SATA controller are you using? Just to know what works :-D
What network chipset was not recognised but worked with the E1000 driver?

Sorry for all the questions, but this info will be of help for others.

Tib,
As for what software works, there is very little difference between this custom version and the official version from contribs.org. I added the updates that I always have to do (openssh, openssl, rsync, proftpd, initscripts, and a few others). I did not update php, apache, imp or horde, or any major item. I had to recreate the ppp and ppp-module rpms for 2.4.28, but I did not update the versions yet. I was just trying to update the kernel so we had the benefits of this newer kernel. I will continue to work on updating this custom iso by adding the updates from the update script one at a time and working on what breaks. I am new to this, but I will give it my best.

I hope this is a benefit for anyone who wants to use "newer" hardware and reap the benefits.

I would really appreciate any and all feedback on success or problems encountered so that I can try to make adjustments. All of us will benefit from the knowledge and this will keep keep things moving forward so that this distro doesn't die.

Thanks everyone.
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: BoZz on January 15, 2005, 12:58:23 PM: Great Stuff,

Can't wait to try it out :-D Just started to download the iso to one of my server's and should be done is about an hour. For those who would like to download it if the primary link is busy go to http://www.weatherdownunder.net/contribs/sme-server-6.0.1-02Custom.iso
the server is on a 100mb link, injoy.
:hammer:
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: cc_skavenger on January 15, 2005, 07:26:45 PM: Thanks for the link BoZz..

FWIW,
I am uploading a new version, sme-server-6.0.1-03RC3.
I have added almost everything from the update script floating around this board. I am having trouble with PHP, but hope to have this resolved soon.

Here is a link to the README:
http://ccskavenger.info/SME/iso/sme-6.0.1-03Custom/sme-server-6.0.1-03Custom-readme.txt

Here is the link:
http://ccskavenger.info/SME/iso/sme-6.0.1-03Custom/

Once again, any and all suggestions / complaints are appreciated.
Title: My SATA config
Post by: gocdo on January 16, 2005, 01:45:29 AM: Hi

It is a supermicro P4SCE board in a 5013C-T 1RU chassis.
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/P4/E7210/P4SCE.cfm

Running with a P4 3.2Ghz, 2xWD 200GB SATA and 2GB ram - runs quite well :-}

From the supermicro website:
Dual Intel® 82541 Gigabit Ethernet Controllers
SATA Controller on-chip (Intel® ICH5R)

Am copying down your RC3 spin so I can try that one.

Regards
Kevin
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: BoZz on January 16, 2005, 03:16:28 AM: Hi All,

Marco's latest Custom Contrib sme-server-6.0.1-03RC3 can also be downloaded in about 1 hour from here if the primary link is slow.
http://www.weatherdownunder.net/contribs/sme-server-6.0.1-03RC3Custom.iso

Brett

:-)
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: cc_skavenger on January 16, 2005, 05:10:47 PM: Looks like RC3 has more problems then I thought....
I will keep everyone posted when I have something new...

For now, I would stick with 6.0.1-02Custom...

I really appreciate everyones input and help with hosting.

Thanks
Title: Re: My SATA config
Post by: cc_skavenger on January 16, 2005, 05:15:37 PM: Quote from: "gocdo"
Running with a P4 3.2Ghz, 2xWD 200GB SATA and 2GB ram - runs quite well :-}

kevin,

Can you do a hdparm -Tt /dev/whatever your hard drive is

and show what you got. Curious what the throughput of the hard drives are...

Thanks
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: wyron on January 17, 2005, 11:46:25 AM: Quote from: "BoZz"
Hi All,

Marco's latest Custom Contrib sme-server-6.0.1-03RC3 can also be downloaded in about 1 hour from here if the primary link is slow.
http://www.weatherdownunder.net/contribs/sme-server-6.0.1-03RC3Custom.iso

Brett

:-)

Your contribs folder is not browsable. How about opening it for us (for ftp, at least), instead of forcing everybody to use wget?
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: gocdo on January 17, 2005, 01:45:00 PM: Hi

I should have said it runs well with Centos 3.3 - which was what it had until I installed this. That was a screamer (more below).

Depends if it is smp or up mode, but effect is much the same.

smp mode: the cache looks good at 2500 Mb/Sec owever, the buffered came in at a blistering 1.7MB/sec (yes 1.7).

In uni processor cache is 350mb/sec and buffered disk read is 3.11MB/sec.

The same box/disks with Centos 3.3 (smp mode, similar raid config) gets almost 2000MB/sec cache and 54.3MB/sec buffered - so it would appear something is wrong with the SME build. Another issue is the raid set is continually rebuilding, although /proc/mdstat says it needs about 20 hours to rebuild and the server hasn't run that long in one go yet.

I tried installing of the rc3 but couldn't even get the CD to boot.

So we can build a sata SME but it is limping.

Regards
Kevin
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: gocdo on January 17, 2005, 08:38:41 PM: Hi Marco

Can you post the kernel config file on your site as well, then I can get the rpms, rebuild and try different SATA options (if there are any). Now that it boots and runs off SATA I just need to get the performance up where it should be :-}

Or email it to me at
kevin.m at webos dot com dot au

Regards
kevin
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: cc_skavenger on January 17, 2005, 10:31:52 PM: BoZz,

Could you please delete the sme-server-6.0.1-03RC3 iso you are hosting for me. I have removed it myself because it has too many problems. I hope to have something to replace it soon.

Thanks
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: cc_skavenger on January 17, 2005, 10:46:20 PM: Kevin,

Here is a link:

http://ccskavenger.info/SME/Kernel-Upgrades/beta/2.4.28/for-custom-iso/
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: BoZz on January 18, 2005, 02:55:35 AM: Marco,

This has been done

:-D
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: cc_skavenger on January 18, 2005, 04:58:17 AM: Thanks BoZz.

I need to fix the problems with the kernel, before I can start to add in all the updated packages. I also need to work with MySQL and PHP and see why they keep breaking things. :cry:

I guess this isn't going to be as easy as I thought. I guess I had high expectations, but fell flat on my face.

Oh well, I will keep trying. Thanks everyone for the feedback and the help with everything.
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: gocdo on January 18, 2005, 09:15:25 AM: Thanks Marco

Will try rebuilds and see what I can do - will let you know what happens. Email me directly and we can discuss this off line

regards
kevin

kevin dot m at webos dot com dot au
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: matsk on January 19, 2005, 01:24:48 AM: Will you include the new documentation as well on the ISO ?

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/bobk/down-loads/

/Mats
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: mbachmann on January 19, 2005, 12:44:33 PM: I gave the RC2 a shot and have not found anything unusual so far. I suggest the advanced workgroup contrib, the Sme6admin to be added - although it is in french, and the securemail contrib.
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: JUL on January 19, 2005, 02:10:46 PM: Quote from: "gocdo"
Network issue - selected E1000 (last on the select list) and now on the network.

Now to hammer it... One happy user, thanks for this version.

regards
kevin

hello,

Did you make an installation with software raid 1 enabled on your 2 Sata drives ?

Regards,
Title: sme 6 and dell poweredge 1600 raid scsi
Post by: phil93 on January 19, 2005, 08:47:00 PM: i try to install sme on this dell and i can't
does your conrib will help me ?
Title: Re: sme 6 and dell poweredge 1600 raid scsi
Post by: JUL on January 19, 2005, 08:51:12 PM: Quote from: "phil93"
i try to install sme on this dell and i can't
does your conrib will help me ?

Is there really a 2.4.28 kernel when I run install with anaconda, with a uname -a, i see a 2.4.20 kernel. What's wrong with that ?
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: mbachmann on January 21, 2005, 10:11:59 AM: I felt lucky and applied the 6.5 beta as an upgrade over the custom 6.01 RC2 to see what happens. Machine was configured to server-only mode, only one user existent.

1. It does not seem to upgrade anything, the older packages are still in use (like samba 2.2.8 or e-smith-base 6.0.4), nothing new, rien. I expected it to upgrade the rpm's at last.

2. It actually does something: no remote access over ssh or https possible, you can use the local server-manager. Most services start as normal, dns seems to be broken ("unable to bind udp socket")

This was just a spare time test and should not be taken serious - although i wonder about the complete failure of the 6.5 "upgrade" function.
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: daley on September 28, 2005, 04:13:42 AM: Quote from: "BoZz"
Hi All,

Marco's latest Custom Contrib sme-server-6.0.1-03RC3 can also be downloaded in about 1 hour from here if the primary link is slow.
http://www.weatherdownunder.net/contribs/sme-server-6.0.1-03RC3Custom.iso

Brett

:-)

Dear all,

I am trying to download this file but failed, where is the exact location that i can access it, many thanks.
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: cc_skavenger on September 28, 2005, 08:45:25 PM: It is no longer available. I would try either SME 6.5 or 7 instead. These versions are more up to date and will handle newer equipment better then what I was trying to do.
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: BoZz on September 29, 2005, 11:38:16 PM: Sorry Mate,

the only iso I have left is sme-server-6.0.1-02Custom.iso
http://www.weatherdownunder.net/contribs/sme-server-6.0.1-02Custom.iso
:-?

Cheers,

Brett
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: peter_weber6 on February 01, 2006, 09:13:06 PM: hi,

thank's vor this version (sme-6.0.1-02Custom), now i am happy.
Dual Intel® 82541 Gigabit Ethernet Controllers works now.

I think it's the kernel 2.4.28.
I use dell2800 server.

:pint:
Title: It's Custom ISO testing Time Again
Post by: cc_skavenger on February 02, 2006, 04:08:48 AM: This was removed, I would really suggest trying SME 7pre1 instead. I could never get it to work right and stopped work on it.