Amahi 7 installation

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	This page is updated as Amahi 7 on Fedora 19 is updated; changes expected

Amahi 7 (Express-Disc)

• The express-disc installation method is the primary installation method for Amahi 7 with Fedora 19 and as such, upgrades from prior versions of Fedora are not advised, since very much has changed since older versions of Fedora.
• This installation method works with both physical and virtual machine systems.
• Separate wiki articles are in the works for transitioning old storage/ shares to new installations.
• Note that this installation is for x64 (64-bit) systems only.
• also see Amahi 7 release notes

Installation Guide Video!

Please see the video tutorial for installation

Installation Guide

Please reference the Amahi Documentation

x86 / 32-Bit installations

Note that the Express disc is a x64 (64-bit) installation only.

For x86/32-bit installation intructions, see the Amahi 7 full DVD page.

GUI Installation

As a desktop environment is not installed. Please take a look at our GUI install wiki page for this.

Web App Feature Work Around

Currently there is no option for Adding a web share / app manually like in Amahi 6. Until the feature is available, those who need the feature can follow the guidance here.

Greyhole

Currently there is no Dashboard add-on to setup and configure Greyhole for Amahi 7. This must be done manually using the following guidance as root user:

• Install the package (to get the latest version, follow upgrade guidance):

  yum -y install hda-greyhole

• Set up a mysql database and user to access it:

 hda-create-db-and-user greyhole

• Load the database schema:

 mysql -u greyhole -pgreyhole  greyhole < /usr/share/greyhole/schema-mysql.sql

Initialize the basic settings for Greyhole, configure /etc/greyhole.conf:

• Change db_user and db_password to greyhole.
  
• Add a line for each drive (go here for adding new hard drives) in the storage pool at the end of the file. The example below is for two drives:

   storage_pool_directory = /var/hda/files/drives/drive2/gh, min_free: 10gb
   storage_pool_directory = /var/hda/files/drives/drive3/gh, min_free: 10gb

NOTE: Although the /etc/greyhole.conf contents indicate storage_pool_drive, it should be storage_pool_directory. If you don't set it correctly, Greyhole will not work.

• Now configure the number of copies per share. The example below sets the shares as follows:
  • Books for max copies (which is 1 for 2 drives)
  • Pictures for 1 copy (which is the same as max)
  • Movies for no copies

   num_copies[Books] = 999
   num_copies[Pictures] = 2
   num_copies[Movies] = 1

NOTE: For a system with 2 Greyhole drives, 1 copy is the max. The first Greyhole drive holds the master copy and the second a copy. The share will contain a symbolic link to the master.

• In the Dashboard, Shares tab add the following to Extra Parameters for each share you will be configuring to use Greyhole:

  dfree command = /usr/bin/greyhole-dfree
  vfs objects = greyhole

• Finally, enable greyhole permanently and start the service:

 systemctl enable greyhole.service
 systemctl start greyhole.service

• You can monitor activity by watching /var/log/greyhole.log file:

  tail -f /var/log/greyhole.log