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* The default debian browser (konquerer ephipany if I recall correctly) will not indicate progress while installing

* A system to install things on. This system must support debian 6.0.4 and have the needed resources. I've assumed the system has a network connection, but it will undoubtly be possible to get things working with an installation disk and some data transfer with USB disks.

* x86 virtual machine under VirtualBox We are working on getting this to run under arm as well.E.g. on: * OpenRD Client (primary development platform, armv5tel)

* x86 virtual machine under Xen.Raspberry PICheck back later if you are interested in one of these platforms

Most of this was tested on SheevaPlug and OpenRD clientdebian 6. Some tests have also been done 0.4 on an x86 virtual machine under Xena 386 VM (using virtualbox).

<b>Currently this is only supported on arm little endian (armel) hardware and only tested 32bit. </b> You need to install Debian on your platform. No special packages are needed. E.g. when installing on armv5tela system without a display there is no need to install a graphical desktop.

You need to install For Debian on PC I used this guide: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ and used this iso: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.4/i386/iso-cd/debian on your platform-6.0. No special packages are needed4-i386-netinst. Eiso For SheevaPlug I used this guide: http://www.gcyrius. when installing on a system without a display there is no need to com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/install a graphical desktop.html

When being asked for a mysql root password, leave the password empty (actually you might will get this question more than once). <br>Also I opted for automatically start hddtempFor any question you get just hit return. Then perform the following steps '''while logged in as root or with the sudo command''':* wget http://amahi.99k.org/debian.install* sh debian.install yourinstallcodeWhere yourinstallcode is an install code you generated on www.amahi.org Note, while installing you will face a long wait after the message "install code looks good" and after "initializing plugin factory"

When done, reboot the system and open a browser to http://hdaThe system will ask you to log in, use the user that you created while installing debian. Note that after log in amahi will force you to change the password of that user to a different (!) password. Note: on arm it might be finishedthat mysql initialisation is not completely done when hdactl is started. You can see that if ps ax | grep hdactl only gives one hdactl process and your grep task. In that case kill the hdactl task and start hdactl manually (with /etc/init.d/hdactl start)

Note: the procedure below describes how to generate the packages from the sources. This procedure requires the amahi git. However at the moment there are several patches pending to be committed. While generating will work, there are probably some issues present that are fixed in the binary version. * Install debian. If you install mysql do not give it a root password.* on this system perform the following steps:* git clone git://git.amahi.org/amahi.git * wget http://amahi.99k.org/buildit* sh builditNote that the script now requires root access You have now build your packages. you now can install the packages by performing the following steps:* echo "deb file:/root/amahirepo ./" >>/etc/apt/sources.list* apt-get update* apt-get --force-yes -y install hda-platform * hda-install your-install-codewhere your-install-code is the code you obtain from www.amahi;org  Note that the echo line modifying sources.list only needs to do once. Also you need to adapt the path to the place where your repo dir is. If you ran as root it will probably be writtenthe location I gave.