Amahi 8 Install

NOTE: Ensure your system meets the requirements for Amahi before proceeding. Currently there is NO Express CD/DVD available.

Download

• Download the Fedora 21 Server DVD (full DVD) for 64 bits (32-bits IS NOT available for Amahi!)
  • Fedora 21 Server 64-bit (http)
  • Fedora 21 Server 64-bit (torrent)
• Server Network Install and LIVE Workstation DVD may work, but ONLY full Server DVD with minimal install is officially supported.

NOTE: USB install using the above methods has not been tested.

Install Fedora

• Install Fedora 21 minimal (NOT Desktop):
  • Boot, choose Install Fedora, choose language; then in software selection choose minimal install
  • This is NOT the default and is at the bottom of the list.
• Choose the hard drive partitioning scheme
• DON'T change the hostname (it may create issues)
• Click on Begin Installation and the installer will proceed
• Create a user with a password. Make sure it's an admin user. Recommend creating a root password.
• Once install completes, don't forget to remove the DVD after installing and before rebooting.
• Upong reboot, login as root first (in a text console)
• Login with the user and become root for the Amahi installation

 sudo su -

Install Amahi

• Install Amahi repo:

  rpm -Uvh http://f21.amahi.org/noarch/hda-release-6.9.0-1.noarch.rpm

• Get the mariadb base packages (this is to avoid dependency conflicts)

  yum -y install mariadb-libs mariadb-server

• Install Amahi platform (NOTE: Should install several packages)

   yum -y install hda-ctl hda-platform

• If there are no errors, install Amahi (Replace YOUR-INSTALL-CODE with install code from the Amahi web site):

  hda-install YOUR-INSTALL-CODE

• If all goes well, it should tell you to reboot

Expectations

• It will boot with the static IP you pre-configured in the Amahi control panel
• You can verify if the dashboard is available by accessing from any client using the IP address.
• It's strongly recommended that you turn off the previous DHCP server and let Amahi handle DHCP so that DNS falls into place
• Reboot all the clients to get them to use your Amahi server
• Your Amahi dashboard should be available at http://hda
• The first time it will initialize and ask you to login and enter a dashboard password for the admin user created earlier
• Optional refer to Greyhole to install/configure storage pooling.