ISCSI

	WARNING
	This is recommended only for advanced users, proceed with caution.

Installing the ISCSI server on Fedora 14/Amahi 6

 Warning Dragons Ahead !!!!!
 This HOWTO is for advanced users 
 Your HDA might self-destruct in a million
 pieces and you might loose Data in the 
 event that you brick your HDA

Installing the ISCSI server

Log into your amahi box via ssh and become root

NOTE: As i have experienced myself it is a good idea to check if your updates are all done correctly . do this by Typing

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​yum update​

Let amahi update whatever is necessary to avoid a kernel module error trying to start the ISCSI server.

Then install kernel headers and gcc

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​yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel gcc​

Now we going to download the install script i wrote

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​wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57179706/iscsi/install.sh​

Then run

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​sh ./install.sh​

This should have now compiled and installed the ISCSI server on your Amahi box.

Configuration and creation of an ISCSI disk image

The easiest way to get an ISCSI target is to create an image file.

We are doing this by typing :

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​mkdir /var/hda/files/iscsi dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/hda/files/iscsi/disk.img bs=1M count=0 seek=256000​

You can name the disk.img whatever you want and the numbers behind seek is the size of the image disk which in our case is 250 gigs.

Now if we look in /var/hda/files/iscsi/ we will find a file called disk.img

Configuring the ISCSI server to serve your disk image

We have to edit the config file in /etc/iet/ietd.conf (use your favorite editor)

Leave everything as it is exept at the bottom we add

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​Target iqn.2012-02.com.domain:disk.img Lun 0 Path=/var/hda/files/iscsi/disk.img,Type=fileio​

Save and exit your editor

Start/restart your ISCSI server

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​service iscsi-target restart​

done

Use Win 7 ISCSI initiator to connect a ISCSI target

Go to Start - Control Panel - click on Administrative tools -

From there click on ISCSI initiator

Install Using External Repository

For ease of use i have created a repository which can easily be added

Download the repo file located at :

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​http://amahirepo.3owl.com/rpmorama.repo​

Copy that file to

 /etc/yum.repos.d/

Run

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​yum update​

Then you can install the iscsi server by typing

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​yum install iscsitarget​

You still have to create the disk and edit the iet.conf file