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 app manually like in Amahi 6. Until the feature is available, those who need the feature can follow the guidance here.

Manual Greyhole Setup

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):

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​yum -y install hda-greyhole​

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

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​hda-create-db-and-user greyhole​

• Load the database schema:

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​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:

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​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

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​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:

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

• Finally, enable greyhole permanently and start the service:

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​systemctl enable greyhole.service systemctl start greyhole.service​

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

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​tail -f /var/log/greyhole.log​