[SMS]

ezens · Junior Member Joined: 17 Feb 2010 Posts: 7

i have installed windows 2000 on my web server but i want linux
since ubuntu server edition doesn't detect cdrom (and they have no idea why)
i downloaded sms burned cd puted in drive
server booted from cd but where it start to show boot log monitor kinda screws up and doubles ... can't understand nothing
then it goes to login part ... still can't understand nothing just can see that log has stoped
so what to do ore type to get it any further ???

sorry for my bad english ... i'm from latvija

gerasimos_h · Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 6:44 pm Post subject:

Hi,
If I understand correctly you boot with SMS.Live.CD and you are in front of the login prompt.
That's a good thing, that means your server is up and running.
Go to another PC and open IE and type http://sms or \\sms on explorer, you should see web server or samba server running.
If that so, next thing is to install it on disk.
You will loose any partitions and data on that disk, if that's ok, login with username root and password toor and type cfdisk and delete the partition and create one small partition ( twice your ram) type 82 and the rest as type 83.
Afterwards type "sms-text-installer" and follow the instructions.
Some help is available at http://sms.it-ccs.com/wiki/#2
If you are having problems I'll upload a video tutorial.
Just test that your server is running OK! by opening an IE from another PC.

gerasimos_h

ezens · Junior Member Joined: 17 Feb 2010 Posts: 7

i don't use windows on any of my machines
and server isn't connected to network
plus i can't see what it returns after commands because video screws up on booting from this cd

gerasimos_h · Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 7:17 pm Post subject:

What monitor do you have (15" 17")?
What do you mean can't see anything? Have you tried typing "clear" or switching console (ctrl+alt+f2)?

gerasimos_h

ezens · Junior Member Joined: 17 Feb 2010 Posts: 7

it's 14 crt i think
picture doubles and stplit in center of screen
i will try to make a picture

gerasimos_h · Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 7:45 pm Post subject:

At boot prompt of live cd press [tab] and change vga=791 to vga=771.
Your CRT monitor can't handle the resolution.

gerasimos_h

ezens · Junior Member Joined: 17 Feb 2010 Posts: 7

that fixed that but
after comand cfdisk i get "disk opened you have read not write premission"
ore something like that
later it says "will lose data" etc i press "y" and patrition log shows only cdrom and it's free space ...
btw my server has 4x18,6 gb hdd's

gerasimos_h · Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:21 pm Post subject:

That's reasonable, since /dev/hda it's your cdrom Wink

Are those SCSI ,SATA or PATA disks?
Try "ls -l /dev/hd*" or "ls -l /dev/sd*" to locate your drives.
After that type cfdisk with your device e.g. "cfdisk /dev/hdb"

gerasimos_h

ezens · Junior Member Joined: 17 Feb 2010 Posts: 7

SCSI 2 ultra wide
oh so dev/hda is cdrom
btw does this os have any interface ore something like that
i'm kinda new in all this

gerasimos_h · Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:32 pm Post subject:

It has but it's not on the disk you have you can install it later,or try installing from SMS.Native.CD.
Do a "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" to list your drives.
Try "ls -l /dev/sg*" to locate your drives.

gerasimos_h

ezens · Junior Member Joined: 17 Feb 2010 Posts: 7

cat /proc/scsi/scsi

returned

Attached devices :

and nothing else ... is that's hove it suppose to be ?

gerasimos_h · Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:12 pm Post subject:

It's not suppose to be, you should see your disks either in /proc/scsi/scsi or under /dev/sd* or /dev/sg*
What brand is your scsi controller?

gerasimos_h

ezens · Junior Member Joined: 17 Feb 2010 Posts: 7

it's kinda late so i will look after it any way great thanks for helping